white paper

1. 1.

   a government report; bound in white

   Synonymswhite book

   Broaderreport

Questions about white paper

What does white paper mean?

white paper means "a government report; bound in white".

What is another word for white paper?

Close synonyms include white book. 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 white paper a common word?

white paper 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.