What is "order of business"

Usage examples of "order of business".

Clearly, the first order of business was to find a hideout, an obscure off-the-track place where a man and his egg would be left alone.

One simply concentrated on the next order of business and refused to be turned from one's chosen course by fuzzy doors, edges, or ceilings, or by flaring colors.

Their first order of business, though, was to make a trial water run, to find out how difficult their situation was.