WordNet
first reading
n. the first presentation of a bill in a legislature
Usage examples of "first reading".
Suddenly he remembered first reading these test results on his screen and feeling, what?
Reaching from an eleven-year-old boy, first reading I, Robot, to the twenty-first century, just around the corner.
And yet let no admirer of the great romancer of the twentieth century resent my saying that at the first reading what most impressed me was not so much what was in the book as what was left out of it.
The housekeeper said the same, so eager were they both for the slaughter of those innocents, but the curate would not agree to it without first reading at any rate the titles.