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AGENDA
agenda, docket, schedule
(noun) a temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to
agenda, agendum, order of business
(noun) a list of matters to be taken up (as at a meeting)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Proper noun
Agenda
A city and village in Kansas, United States.
A town in Wisconsin, United States.
Etymology
Noun
agenda (plural agendas or agendae)
A temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to.
A list of matters to be taken up (as at a meeting).
A notebook used to organize and maintain such plans or lists, an agenda book, an agenda planner.
A hidden agenda.
(obsolete) A ritual.
Usage notes
The word agenda is the Latin plural of agendum, but in English the word agenda is usually taken as a singular, and item on the agenda used for individual things in the list.
Synonyms
• (temporally organized plan): docket, worklist, schedule
Noun
agenda
(now rare) plural of agendum
Source: Wiktionary
AGENDUM
A*gen"dum, n.; pl. Agenda. Etym: [L., neut. of the gerundive of agere to act.]
1. Something to be done; in the pl., a memorandum book.
2. A church service; a ritual or liturgy. [In this sense, usually Agenda.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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