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Green paper

noun

A preliminary report of government proposals that is published in order to stimulate discussion.

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"Green paper" Quotes from Famous Books

... the door of the great buildings where he lodged, and climbed wearily out, the porter ran out, hat in hand, holding a little green paper. ...

— Dawn of All • Robert Hugh Benson

... a green paper screw of tobacco from the debris round the armchair and taps on the door. It opens. CLARE moves ...

— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy

... door of the great buildings where he lodged, and climbed wearily out, the porter ran out, hat in hand, holding a little green paper. ...

— Dawn of All • Robert Hugh Benson

... these with package goods—breakfast foods, and the like—so as to make a goodly display. She found colored tissue papers, too, and she brightened the window shelf with these. She festooned the fly-specked, T-arm light bracket in the window, and carried twisted strings of the pink and green paper to the four corners of the window shelf from the ...

— Janice Day at Poketown • Helen Beecher Long

... affair at the post-office must have the first turn; and very grand did David feel as the clerk peeped out from his little hole, and looked amused and gracious as the little boy stood on tiptoe to give in his green paper. ...

— The Stokesley Secret • Charlotte M. Yonge