agenda
/əˈdʒɛndə
/- When he had been Mayor he had proposed that Any Other Business be removed from the meeting agendas.
- The meeting discussed the agenda for the games and a further meeting will be held at a later date.
- I am more than content to discuss this issue further and will add this to the agenda for our next meeting.
- In most cases they raise the funding on the basis of their own agendas, plans and proposals.
- Top of the agenda were plans for the Atlantic League designed to accommodate big clubs from the smaller countries.
- Advocate for inclusion, but if they fail them in that regard, they should create their own programs and agendas to address the needs we neglect.
Synonyms
- Into their barren lives comes Aunt Miriam, a social worker with an agenda.
- According to Harawira, the unions had their own agenda - closely aligned to protecting the interests of the company.
- The various pressure groups which preserved these stories all had their own agendas.
- We will be sending you a calendar of events for the entire year, which should help organize your agendas and allow you to offer your utmost participation.
- Also included is an attractive leather bound agenda made with recycled tropical fibers such as coffee, tobacco and bananas as well as an executive brass pen made with recycled brass.
Usage
Although agenda is the plural of agendum in Latin, in standard modern English it is normally used as a singular noun with a standard plural form (agendas). See also data (usage) and media1 (usage).
Phrases
on the agenda
set the agenda
Origin
Early 17th century (in the sense 'things to be done'): from Latin, neuter plural of agendum, gerundive of agere 'do'.
actor from Late Middle English:
An actor was originally simply ‘a doer’, usually an agent or an administrator; the theatrical sense dates from the 16th century. Like act (Late Middle English) it comes from Latin actus ‘thing done’, which comes from agere ‘to do, drive’. This is the basis of other English words such as agenda (early 17th century) ‘things to be done’; agent (Late Middle English) ‘someone or thing who does things’; agile (Late Middle English) ‘able to do things’; agitate (Late Middle English) originally meaning ‘drive away’; ambiguous (early 16th century) ‘drive in both ways’, a word, which appears to have been coined by the English scholar and statesman Sir Thomas More (1478–1535), originally in the sense ‘indistinct, obscure’; transaction (Late Middle English) ‘something driven across or through’ and many more. Actuality (Late Middle English) originally had the sense ‘activity’; from Old French actualite from actualis ‘active, practical’. The modern French word actualité (usually meaning ‘news’) is sometimes used in English to mean ‘truth’, a sense not found in French as in: ‘When asked why the company had not been advised to include the potential military use, he [Alan Clark] said it was our old friend economical…with the actualité’ (Independent 10 November 1992).