order of the day
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.35 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The business to be done by a body (such as a legislature) on a particular day; an agenda.
noun
The most significant aspect of something; what is necessary or appropriate.
noun
The general directive of a commander-in-chief or the specific instructions of a commanding officer.
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."
- "The ranks of political prisoners swelled into the thousands, and beatings, torture, and official murder became the order of the day."
- "Standard-issue liberal guilt and hand-wringingly uninteresting dilemmas are the order of the day, with no real surprises or challenges."
- "I'm not in the mood for whisky, nor beer. Something soft would be sensible, but I decide that wine is the order of the day - a sauvignon blanc, which I take with a few olives."