order of business
Noun
Meaning
a list of matters to be taken up (as at a meeting)
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Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business.
When someone's wounded, the first order of business is to stop the bleeding. You can figure out later how best to help them heal.
As a final order of business, Holmes asked council and city staff to consider hosting an event for Juneteenth, commemorating June 19, 1865, the date that union troops arrived in Galveston Bay, Texas to ensure enslaved people were free.
As his first order of business, he set up a match between Shawn Michaels and Kane, which Michaels won.
But there is one outstanding order of business on Jennings’s agenda that threatens to unravel much of her good work: the appointment of the next director general at the EMSB.
As her first order of business she confirmed the nomination of Rainilaiarivony and his elntourage in their positions.