la ordinea zilei

Romanian

Etymology

Calque of French à l’ordre du jour (literally “at the order of the day”).

Prepositional phrase

la ordinea zilei

  1. topical, current (that is a matter of current events, that is on everyone’s mind)
    • 1997 December 16, Dumitru Păcuraru, Informația Zilei, year 5, number 1279, Satu Mare, →ISSN, page 1:
      Acum la ordinea zilei sînt prețurile, șomajul, devalorizarea leului, integrarea europeană.
      Now it’s prices, unemployment, devaluing of the leu, European integration that are topical.
  2. (chiefly of negative things) commonplace, that does not surprise anybody
    • 2018 January 25, Simona Stupar, “Incidentele armate în școlile din SUA, la ordinea zilei [Armed incidents in US schools commonplace]”, in Evenimentul Zilei, number 8165, Bucharest, →ISSN, page 8

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