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previous question
n.
The motion in parliamentary procedure to take an immediate vote on the main question being considered or on any other questions so designated.
previous question
n
1. (Law / Parliamentary Procedure) (in the House of Commons) a motion to drop the present topic under debate, put in order to prevent a vote
2. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) (in the House of Lords and US legislative bodies) a motion to vote on a bill or other question without delay See also closure [4]
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Noun1.previous question - a motion calling for an immediate vote on the main question under discussion by a deliberative assembly
parliamentary law, parliamentary procedure, rules of order, order - a body of rules followed by an assembly
motion, gesture - the use of movements (especially of the hands) to communicate familiar or prearranged signals


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The answer warmed the hearts of both the old men, but, with the usual avoidance of Englishmen of emotional subjects personal to themselves, they instinctively returned to the previous question.
The Lair of the White Worm by Stoker, Bram View in context
Casson had the laugh strongly against him, and wisely fell back on the previous question, which, far from being exhausted in a single evening, was renewed in the churchyard, before service, the next day, with the fresh interest conferred on all news when there is a fresh person to hear it; and that fresh hearer was Martin Poyser, who, as his wife said, "never went boozin' with that set at Casson's, a- sittin' soakin' in drink, and looking as wise as a lot o' cod-fish wi' red faces.
Adam Bede by Eliot, George View in context
asked Tara of Helium, who had liked the young jed's answer to her previous question, but yet in whose mind persisted a vague conviction of the possible effeminacy of her companion, induced, doubtless, by the magnificence of his trappings and weapons which carried a suggestion of splendid show rather than grim utility.
The Chessmen of Mars by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
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