agenda
//əˈd͡ʒɛn.də//
Forms
- Plural
- agendas
- present (v1)
- agenda
- past (v2)
- agendaed
- past participle (v3)
- agendaed
- present participle
- agendaing
- 3rd person singular
- agendas
Definitions
1.A temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to.
2.A list of matters to be taken up (as at a meeting).
3.An ulterior motive; a program of various such motives.
- By invoking a wartime authority in service of a peacetime deportation agenda, he has gone beyond what even this draconian power permits.
- These plans are the complete opposite of the path pursued by Emmanuel Macron since 2017. His agenda has exacerbated both income and wealth inequality, while there has been no change in investment, job creation or growth.
4.A notebook used to organize and maintain such plans or lists, an agenda book, an agenda planner.
- It may be better to simply buy an agenda at the drug store for five dollars, but you need to keep this stuff accurate.
- A homework agenda, sometimes called a student planner, is a notebook often used to help your child keep track of daily homework assignments.
- The children will use an agenda book that the school provides to organize their homework information. Before leaving for home, the children will neatly write their assignments and related directions in their agendas.
1.To add an item to an official schedule.(formal)
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #2231
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Related words
Etymology
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ-
Proto-Indo-European *-eti
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti
Proto-Italic *agō
Latin agō
Latin agendader.
English agenda
From Latin agenda (“things that ought to be done”), future passive participle (gerundive) of agō (“to do, act, make”).