white paper
noun1
Business, Management, Marketing A document based on research informing and educating a reader regarding a topic, which may also promote a product or a solution.
2
Government, Politics European Union, Ireland, UK A parliamentary document announcing or proposing a government policy or action.
- The report of the British Transport Commission to the Minister of Transport on its re-appraisal of the plan for the modernisation of British Railways has been published as a White Paper.1959 August 23, “Re-appraisal of the Modernisation of British Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 518:
3
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see white, paper.
- Related terms
- green paper, grey literature