PREVIOUS QUESTION

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A motion calling for an immediate vote on the main question under discussion by a deliberative assembly

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("previous question" is a kind of...):

order; parliamentary law; parliamentary procedure; rules of order (a body of rules followed by an assembly)

gesture; motion (the use of movements (especially of the hands) to communicate familiar or prearranged signals)

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