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AGENDUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does agendum mean? 

AGENDUM (noun)
  The noun AGENDUM has 1 sense:

1. a list of matters to be taken up (as at a meeting)play

  Familiarity information: AGENDUM used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


AGENDUM (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A list of matters to be taken up (as at a meeting)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

agenda; agendum; order of business

Hypernyms ("agendum" is a kind of...):

list; listing (a database containing an ordered array of items (names or topics))

Meronyms (parts of "agendum"):

agenda item (one of the items to be considered)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "agendum"):

order of the day (the order of business for an assembly on a given day)


 Context examples 


Travel will be on the agenda this month, too.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

A prearranged meeting for consultation or exchange of information or discussion, especially one with a formal agenda.

(Conference, NCI Thesaurus)

This exercise will help set the NCI's research agenda in breast cancer by identifying and prioritizing those scientific opportunities that are most likely to expand our knowledge base and that will ultimately reduce the burden of this cancer.

(Breast Cancer Progress Review Group, NCI Thesaurus)

The purpose of the NRSA program is to help ensure that highly trained scientists are available in adequate numbers and in the appropriate research areas and fields to carry out the nation's biomedical and behavioral research agenda.

(Institutional National Research Service Award, NCI Thesaurus)

The study has exposed the need to engage society in deforestation controls with a new command and control framework for projects, a positive agenda of incentives to production efficiencies in existing deforested areas, and better support for protecting one's forest assets, as well as a larger role of business and banks in anti-deforestation controls.

(Amazon lost 7,989 km² of forest in 12 months, Agência Brasil)

A non-profit association of medical schools, teaching hospitals, and academic societies from the US and Canada, working with its members to set a national agenda for medical education, biomedical research, and health care, and assists its members by providing services at the national level that facilitate the accomplishment of their missions.

(Association of American Medical Colleges, NCI Thesaurus)

You will set the agenda at that time, not others.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Over this full moon, a lovely social event could be on your agenda, and you would very likely need to drive (or go by rail, bus, or plane) to another city to attend.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The planets are supporting your agenda, dear Taurus, so after Mercury turns direct on March 9, in the days and weeks that follow, present your proposals for approval.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Travel will frequently dot your agenda now, and although you are not likely to travel far, you will thoroughly enjoy the trips.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)



 Learn English with... Proverbs 
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"He who lives fast goes straight to his death." (Corsican proverb)



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