order of the day

Definition

The business to be done by a body (such as a legislature) on a particular day; an agenda.

Example Sentences

• "1808, From the Journals of the House of Assembly of Lower Canada, during the Hart affair; Proceedings Relating to the Expulsion of Ezekiel Hart from the House of Assembly of Lower Canada The order of the day for the House to resolve into a Committee of the whole, to take into further consideration, the petition of Ezekiel Hart, Esquire, being read."
• "White tie and tails are the order of the day."
• "Throughout the world, change is the order of the day."