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order of business

事项顺序,议事日程,事项次序,议事日程安排

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a task assigned or to be dealt with: Our first order of business is to reduce expenses.

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Examples

  • And in order for them to realize their vision, they are willing to use any means.

  • I was a little mystified at how benignly he responded to my questions about his business activities.

  • This reporter knocked at the Wilkins home on Tuesday morning but received neither an answer nor the business end of a shotgun.

  • “Competition is there, of course, but I think there is enough business for everyone as long as the demand is there,” he says.

  • Last March they gave Airbus a huge piece of new business, ordering 169 A320s and 65 of the slightly larger A321.

  • He remembered something—the cherished pose of being a man plunged fathoms-deep in business.

  • On the thirteenth of the same month they bound to the stake, in order to burn alive, a man who had two religious in his house.

  • Now this setting up of an orderly law-abiding self seems to me to imply that there are impulses which make for order.

  • Turn away from sin and order thy hands aright, and cleanse thy heart from all offence.

  • Dockier, a prominent leader of the Levelers, in the times of the English commonwealth, was shot by order of the government.