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noun

agenda n.

A temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to.

Synonyms: docket, schedule

A list of matters to be discussed (as at a meeting).

Synonyms: agendum, docket, order of business

A motive or set of goals; as, to have one's own agenda; especially, A secret motive; also called hidden agenda; as, some of the news commentators themselves have an agenda.

Synonyms: goal, hidden motive, secret motive, hidden agenda.

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Etymology of 'Agenda'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Agenda" Quotes from Famous Books

... score, census, statistics, returns. [list of topics in a document] contents, table of contents, outline; synopsis. [list of topics in a protracted activity (frame)] program, programme[Brit]; syllabus; agenda, schedule, calendar, docket. [computer-generated list] listing, printout, output. [written list used as an aid to memory] checklist. table, chart, database; index, inverted file, word list, concordance. ...

— Roget's Thesaurus

... networks have twisted the benefits and conveniences of our increasingly open, integrated, and modernized world to serve their destructive agenda. The al-Qaida network is a multinational enterprise with operations in more than 60 countries. Its camps in Afghanistan provided sanctuary and its bank accounts served as a trust fund for terrorism. Its global activities are coordinated through the use of personal couriers and communication ...

— National Strategy for Combating Terrorism - February 2003 • United States

... upon each other for importance. If the objects that were reported in several of the incidents could be identified, the rest would merely become average UFO reports. The photographs taken by Carl Hart, Jr., became number one on the agenda. ...

— The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects • Edward Ruppelt

... years the Fabian Society with its increased numbers was entitled to several delegates at the annual conference of the Labour Party, and it frequently took part in the business by putting motions or amendments on the agenda paper. All talk of forming a Fabian Socialist Party had died away, and the Executive Committee had shown itself far more appreciative of the importance of the Labour Party than in earlier years. I ...

— The History of the Fabian Society • Edward R. Pease

... into two parts, the first containing the Kirchenordnung covers the ground of the Amsterdam book; the second contains the Order of Service which is not found in that of Amsterdam, where the Antwerp Agenda took its place. The part containing the Kirchenordung is all to which the preface refers when it is said that it was taken almost exactly from the Amsterdam book. It also is divided into two parts, the first of ...

— The Organization of the Congregation in the Early Lutheran Churches in America • Beale M. Schmucker

... vobis. senatores. mittere. quando. ex. Lugduno. habere. nos. nostri. ordinis. viros. non. poenitet. timide. quidim. p. c. egressus. adsuetos. familiaresque. vobis. provinciarum, terminos. sum. sed. destricte jam comatae. Galliae. causa. agenda. est. in. qua. si. quis. hoc. intuetur. quod. bello. per. decem. annos. exercuerunt. divom. julium. idem opponat. centum. annorum. immobilem. fidem. obsequiumque. multis. tripidis. rebus. nostris plusquam. expertum. ...

— Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M—y W—y M—e • Lady Mary Wortley Montague

Words linked to "Agenda" : docket, order of business, menu, listing, plan, programme