agenda
pronunciation
How to pronounce agenda in British English:
UK [əˈdʒendə]
How to pronounce agenda in American English:
US [əˈdʒendə]
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- Noun:
- a temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to
- a list of matters to be taken up (as at a meeting)
Word Origin
- agenda
- agenda: [17] Agenda is the plural of Latin agendum, which is the gerundive form of the verb agere ‘do’ (see AGENT); it thus means literally ‘things to be done’. When the word first entered the language it was given an anglicized singular form, agend, with the plural agends, but this seems to have disappeared by the 18th century. The formal plurality of agenda is still often insisted on by purists, but it has been used as a singular noun since the mid 18th century.=> act, agent
- agenda (n.)
- 1650s, from Latin agenda, literally "things to be done," neuter plural of agendus, gerundive of agere "to do" (see act (n.)). Originally theological (opposed to matters of belief), sense of "items of business to be done at a meeting" first attested 1882. "If a singular is required (=one item of the agenda) it is now agendum, the former singular agend being obsolete" [Fowler].
Example
- 1. But it also has a specific political agenda .
- 2. I claim that technology has its own agenda .
- 3. This is also what is called an agenda .
- 4. The reform agenda hardly stops there .
- 5. But his domestic agenda has crumbled .