SECOND READING

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does second reading mean? 

• SECOND READING (noun)
  The noun SECOND READING has 1 sense:

1. the second presentation of a bill in a legislature; to approve its general principles (Britain) or to discuss a committee's report and take a vote (US)

  Familiarity information: SECOND READING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SECOND READING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The second presentation of a bill in a legislature; to approve its general principles (Britain) or to discuss a committee's report and take a vote (US)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("second reading" is a kind of...):

presentation (the act of presenting a proposal)

 Context examples 

Mr. Micawber was so very much struck by this happy rounding off with a quotation, that he indulged himself, and us, with a second reading of the sentence, under pretence of having lost his place.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)