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agenda
a. Pl. of agend (sense 3), treated as a singular. Also transf., a (notional) list of things to be done, of appointments, etc.; freq. in phr. on the agenda. Cf. agend 1.
1907N.U.T. Conference Agenda (Oxford) 30 This Conference protests against the action of the Executive in printing Supplementary Agendas for Conference. 1928Daily Express 13 Jan. 1/1 Further conferences are to follow with..the Trade Union Council to tabulate agendas and settle difficulties. 1928Observer 1 July 30/5 It sometimes happens that an agenda promises sensations. 1957E. Hyams Into Dream ii. ii. 101 It's a short agenda, by the way, only two items. 1961in Millikan & Blackmer Emerging Nations x. 140 The agenda of external assistance in the economic sphere are cumulative. 1962[see drink n. 8]. 1963Times Rev. Industry June 3/1 Union agendas are increasingly devoted to industrial and economic issues. 1972T. Keneally Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith i. 2 The epoch-old agenda of ceremonies was kept a secret from all the women. 1975B. Bainbridge Sweet William i. 7 Mrs Walton said she hadn't a spare moment. She had a busy agenda. 1982Sci. Amer. Sept. 45/2 The issue is once again high on the agenda of the West German trade unions.
b. attrib., as agenda-paper, the paper containing the agenda of a meeting.
1887Westmor. Gaz. 10 Dec. 2/5 (Stanf.), The next business stated on the agenda paper was to sign a petition [etc.]. 1905Westm. Gaz. 24 July 2/2 The Czar..and the Kaiser..are meeting to-day... We are not given the agenda-paper of their conversation.
▸ A campaign, programme, or plan of action arising from underlying principles, motivations, etc. Hence: the set of underlying motives or ideals of a particular individual or group. Freq. attrib.
hidden agenda: see hidden adj. political agenda: see political adj.
1976Newsweek 19 Apr. 23/1 Their hope is that the party, given a choice between the two, would opt for youth and freshness. ‘Those folks who have their own agenda for Hubert underestimate Jerry Brown’, says one California politician. 1986P. Conroy Prince of Tides vii. 154 She enlisted me as an agent in her unformulated agenda against both her family and Colleton. 1991C. Paglia Sex, Art, & Amer. Culture (1992) 73 That girl had her own agenda..trying to glom onto the Kennedy glamour! 1995A. Weiner Richard Wagner & Anti-Semitic Imagination (1997) 350 His bodily representations of commonality and difference will continue to evoke, perhaps persuasively, his racist agenda. 2002UFO Mag. Jan. 31/2 Newberg declines to say whether he has religious beliefs, arguing that such a revelation would prompt accusations of an agenda.
▸ Agenda 21 n.in reference to the 21st century an internationally agreed action plan for environmental protection and sustainable development, adopted by the 179 governments represented at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development held in Rio de Janeiro in June 1992; cf. Earth Charter n. at earth n.1 Additions.
1990EPA Jrnl. July–Aug. 63/2 One principle [sic] product of the conference will be an agenda for action by the world community for the remainder of this decade and the beginning of the 21st century—‘*Agenda 21’. 1994Britannica Bk. of Year 185/1 The June 1994 deadline for drawing up the desertification treaty and action plan called for in Agenda 21 was not met, but the convention was agreed and signed in October. 2002Jakarta (Indonesia) Post (Electronic ed.) 28 May The General Assembly of the United Nations has agreed to review and improve the implementation of Agenda 21 after ten years.
▸ orig. and chiefly N. Amer. An appointment diary; a personal organizer.
1977N.Y. Times Mag. 4 Dec. 140 (advt.) Bottega Veneta. Madras leather agenda. 1989T. Ferguson Kinkajou ii. i. 117 He thumbed through the pages of an agenda to come up with a suitable date and time. 2003N.Y. Mag. 24 Feb. 20/1 He left with just his Hermès agenda. |