Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A list or program of things to be done or considered: "They share with them an agenda beyond the immediate goal of democratization of the electoral process” ( Daniel Sneider).
- n. A plural of agendum.
Wiktionary
- n. Plural form of agendum.
- n. A temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to.
- n. A list of matters to be taken up (as at a meeting).
- n. A notebook used to organize and maintain such plans or lists, an agenda book, an agenda planner.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. a temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to.
- n. A list of matters to be discussed (as at a meeting).
- n. A motive or set of goals; . a secret motive; also called
hidden agenda .
WordNet 3.0
- n. a temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to
- n. a list of matters to be taken up (as at a meeting)
Etymologies
- From Latin agenda, future passive participle (gerundive) of agō ("I do, act, make"). (Wiktionary)
- Latin, pl. of agendum, agendum; see agendum. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“[5] See the summary of the Obama - Biden energy policy - "implement an economywide capandtrade program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 80 percent by 2050," available at change. gov / agenda / energy_and_environment _agenda and "Barack Obama and Joe Biden on the Environment," on the reduction of "80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050," available at”
“The republican party has proven over and over that there main agenda is to upend Obama at the expense of the American people.”
“This man's main agenda is to do what no one else, for fear of losing political ground, will do: help the forgotten citizens of th United Staes of America.”
“The republicans main agenda is to try and make the president fail, consequently our country and us.”
Obama says opponents reducing health care reform to 'politics'
“Not only that, their main agenda is to prove that a Black man is not smart enough to be President of the United States.”
“Yet the faux patriotic viewers go along with propaganda inspired and funded by foreigners whose main agenda is to tear our country apart.”
“Their main agenda is political control of the region.”
Al Qaeda Strategist Knocks Obama - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
“The blood of every person that dies because of the Bush/McCain agenda is would be on your hands.”
“The main agenda is to make Government less accountable to the people and more powerful - similar to socialist and totalitarian governments.”
Sound Politics: Dismantling your constitutional rights, one step at a time
“The Bloc's main agenda is the dissolution of Canada.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘agenda’.
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4087 more...
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EU Buzz - ALL words and expressions
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1. EU Buzz - single words
2. EU Buzz - collocations
3. EU Buzz - the 100 most active
collocation constituentsabsorption capacity, absorption rate, acceding country, accession candidate, accession countries, accession country, accession criteria, accession cycle, accession negotia..., accession partner..., accession priorities, accession treaty and 2650 more...
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AFET - diplomacy
broker a peace ac..., client state, deadlocked peace ..., embassy, freeze, goodwill ambassador, hinterland, interfere in dome..., intervene personally, maintain technica..., mediation, no business as usual and 670 more...
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EU - Eurovoc - politics
absolute majority, absolute monarchy, abstentionism, access to informa..., acquisition of arms, action brought be..., action for annulment, action to establi..., ad hoc committee, adjournment, adjournment motion, administration and 965 more...
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POL - legislation
US Congress/Senate + Westminster + European Parliament usage
across the desk, act, action, adjournment, adjournment sine die, adoption, advise and consent, amendment, analysis of the b..., apportionment, appropriation, appropriations limit and 652 more...
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EN - newSPEAK
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actionable, administrivia, advermation, agreeance, backbone provider, back-sourcing, baked in, bandwidth, barn raising, Barneyware, belly-buttons, Below Zeros and 1078 more...
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EU Buzz - EN words misused by the EU
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actor, actual, adequate, agenda, agent, aids, allow, anglo-saxon, articulate, assist, axis, attestation and 77 more...
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EU - Parliament vocabulary
Terms associated with the workings of the European Parliament
action for annulment, adjournment of de..., admissibility of ..., adoption of a text, agenda, allowances of MEPs, amendment, assent procedure, associated commit..., attendance register, blue card, breach of the Mem... and 241 more...
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POL - campaign tokenisms
Positive words and vague promises. THE words and expressions to use when you want to win over the masses or just don't know what to say.
"CAPITAL" stands for the administrative capital...21st century, a high level of a..., a long way, a long way to go, a lot to be done, a lot to do, achievement, action, action plan, action team, actual implementa..., advantage and 751 more...
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(Persons' names, foreign and grammatical words have been eliminated, MWEs have been split up into individual words. Capitalization has been retained if r...conferral, stateless, person, voting, right, subsidiarity, Latvia, Malta, Slovenia, Lithuania, Finland, Estonia and 2614 more...
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Time
clock, forever, never, ever, ago, when, then, now, past, present, future, timeline and 119 more...
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EU Buzz - single words (1+2+3)
1. Strictly EU terms with special European meaning used only in the EU
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2. Keywords central to the understanding of the EU (people working for the EU are usually able to give thematic...acceleration, action, additionality, administrator, agenda, agricultural, agri-environmental, agriflation, agri-food, applicant, approach, assent and 1325 more...
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INTERP - types of documents
accounts laid bef..., alternative amend..., amendment made by, bill, bills of major co..., budget blueprint, bulky document, Code of Conduct f..., committee recomme..., committee reports..., committee’s opinion, committee's propo... and 103 more...
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accession, acquis, act, action, agenda, agreement, aid, area, assistance, association, base, budget and 88 more...
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EN - overused words
approach, project, expertise, agenda, benchmarking, sustainable, competence, mainstreaming, streamlining, roadmap, action, evaluation and 26 more...
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MUN Vocabulary
suspend, abstain, adjourn, agenda, amendment, binding, background guide, bloc, caucus, chair, dais, decorum and 41 more...
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