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agenda

Syllables: a·gen·da/əˈd͡ʒɛn.də/

agenda noun: a temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to. Also the plural of agendum.

Noun

agenda (plural agendas or (rare, proscribed) agendae)

  1. A temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to.
    • Where the Joker preys on our fears of random, irrational acts of terror, Bane has an all-consuming, dictatorial agenda that’s more stable and permanent, a New World Order that’s been planned out with the precision of a military coup.2012 July 18, Scott Tobias, “The Dark Knight Rises”, in AV Club, retrieved 24 Nov 2024
  2. A list of matters to be taken up (as at a meeting).
  3. A notebook used to organize and maintain such plans or lists, an agenda book, an agenda planner.
    • A homework agenda, sometimes called a student planner, is a notebook often used to help your child keep track of daily homework assignments.2005, Linda Wilmshurst, Alan W. Brue, A Parent's Guide To Special Education: Insider Advice On How To Navigate The System And Help Your Child Succeed, →ISBN, page 145
    • It may be better to simply buy an agenda at the drug store for five dollars, but you need to keep this stuff accurate.2011, Spencer Marc Aronfeld, Make It Your Own Law Firm: The Ultimate Law Student's Guide to Owning, Managing, and Marketing Your Own Successful Law Firm, AuthorHouse, page 12
  4. (figuratively) An ulterior motive; a program of various such motives.
    • These plans are the complete opposite of the path pursued by Emmanuel Macron since 2017. His agenda has exacerbated both income and wealth inequality, while there has been no change in investment, job creation or growth.2024 July 3, Julia Cagé, Thomas Piketty, “France’s ‘hard left’ has been demonised – but its agenda is realistic, not radical”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
    • I haven't got an agenda / I haven't еven got a gender2025, “My Sex”, in Jarvis Cocker (lyrics), More, performed by Pulp
  5. (obsolete) A ritual.

Verb

agenda (third-person singular simple present agendas, present participle agendaing, simple past and past participle agendaed)

  1. (US, formal) To add an item to an official schedule.

Proper noun capitalized: Agenda

Agenda

  1. A city and village in Kansas, United States.
  2. A town in Wisconsin, United States.

Also used as

agenda is also the plural of agendum.

agenda meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Urdu and Telugu

agenda in Hindi

temporally organized plan
कार्यसूची kāryasūcī

agenda in Marathi

अजेंडा, कार्यसूचि, कार्यसूची

agenda in Urdu

ایجنڈا, ایجنڈے

agenda in Telugu

అజెండా, ఎజెండా
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agenda in Malayalam
അജണ്ട, അജൻഡ
agenda in Kannada
ಕಾರ್ಯಸೂಚಿಯನ್ನು, ಕಾರ್ಯಸೂಚಿ, ಕಾರ್ಯಸೂಚಿಯ
agenda in Punjabi
ਏਜੰਡਾ, ਏਜੰਡੇ
agenda in Gujarati
એજન્ડા
agenda in Odia
ଏଜେଣ୍ଡା
agenda in Nepali
एजेन्डा, कार्यसूचि, कार्यसूची
agenda in Tagalog
tikmaan
agenda in Arabic
جَدْوَل jadwal, جَدْوَل أَعْمَال jadwal ʔaʕmāl, جَدْوَلَ أَعْمَال jadwala ʔaʕmāl, بَرْنَامَج barnāmaj
agenda in Persian
آژندا âžendâ
agenda in Vietnamese
nghị trình, chương trình nghị sự

Examples of agenda in a sentence

  • The children will use an agenda book that the school provides to organize their homework information.2011, David Campos, Rocio Delgado, Mary Esther Huerta, Reaching Out to Latino Families of English Language Learners, →ISBN, page 160:
  • By invoking a wartime authority in service of a peacetime deportation agenda, he has gone beyond what even this draconian power permits.2025 April 24, Katherine Yon Ebright, Elizabeth Goitein, “Trump Is Attempting to Use Wartime Powers in the United States”, in The Atlantic:

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Synonyms of agenda

Forms of agenda

Noun
pluralagendas
plural proscribed (rare)agendae
Verb
third-person singular presentagendas
present participleagendaing
past participleagendaed
pastagendaed

Plural of agenda: agendas

Origin of agenda

From Latin agenda (“things that ought to be done”), future passive participle (gerundive) of agō (“to do, act, make”).

Words formed from agenda

Words that rhyme with agenda

Questions about agenda

What does agenda mean?
Agenda means a temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to.
What is agenda in Hindi?
Agenda in Hindi is कार्यसूची (kāryasūcī). See Agenda meaning in Hindi.
How do you use agenda in a sentence?
The children will use an agenda book that the school provides to organize their homework information.
What part of speech is agenda?
Agenda can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce agenda?
Agenda is pronounced /əˈd͡ʒɛn.də/.
What is the plural of agenda?
The plural of agenda is agendas.

Words near agenda in the dictionary

  1. agency shop
  2. agency shops
  3. agencylike
  4. agencywide
  5. agend
  6. agenda
  7. agenda-setting
  8. agendae
  9. agendaless
  10. agendalessness
  11. agendapost

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Adapted from Wiktionary: agenda (page history and authors); Agenda (page history and authors); agenda (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); agenda (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); agenda (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); agenda (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); agenda (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); agenda (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); agenda (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); agenda (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); agenda (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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