rules of order

Questions about rules of order

What does rules of order mean?

rules of order means "a body of rules followed by an assembly".

What is another word for rules of order?

Close synonyms include order, parliamentary law, parliamentary procedure. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is rules of order a common word?

rules of order is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.