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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
agenda
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an item on the agenda/list/menu
▪ The next item on the agenda is next month’s sales conference.
set the agenda (=establish what subjects should be discussed)
▪ We are not attempting to set the agenda for other women’s groups.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
conservative
▪ Camberwick Green, probably unwittingly, supplied me with a conservative counter agenda to the counter-culture.
▪ With Carpenter, Kelly and Davies acting as a voting bloc, the board adopted a conservative legislative agenda.
▪ In retrospect, that is a conservative agenda.
▪ You can't bring the country together and drive through the conservative agenda at the same time.
▪ But they all accepted the Conservative agenda for debate.
▪ Bush won this election because, from the start, he went beyond the old conservative agenda.
▪ The first two reveal an essentially conservative, royalist agenda.
▪ I can help keep a conservative agenda in the House.
different
▪ They would come in with different agendas.
▪ Non-college women with children struggling to make ends meet have a different agenda from that of single college-educated women with hot careers.
▪ You might have experimented by having a different person take the chair for different agenda items.
▪ Feminists believe that women need to be proportionally represented in Parliament and Congress because women have a different agenda.
▪ Unknown to him, others in the party have very different agendas.
▪ It made a powerful bandwagon for people with different agendas.
▪ The different agenda and methodology for each process meant that there was little in common between them.
domestic
▪ Their domestic agendas and failings, even their backgrounds, are surprisingly similar.
▪ And what are the centrepieces of Bush's domestic agenda?
▪ Most are constrained by limited resources and by intractable domestic agendas that impede their capability to implement policy.
▪ President Mitterand continued to be very active in foreign policy, but allowed the premier to control the domestic policy agenda.
▪ The president has put the fight against corruption high on his domestic agenda.
economic
▪ But signs of a pick-up will do nothing soon to cut unemployment, now at the top of the economic agenda.
▪ The introduction and failure of this project provide a good idea of why a separate black economic agenda has always been stifled.
▪ Taxes and the budget are obvious topics as Republicans fashion an economic agenda for the national convention.
hidden
▪ For further advice on tactics for avoiding hidden agendas or surfacing them, see Games on page 71.
▪ To have no secrets, no abnormal fears, no hidden agenda.
▪ The London Implementation Group has no hidden agenda.
▪ There is frequently a hidden agenda in the use of games.
▪ What proved decisive, however, was part of the hidden agenda of unemployment.
▪ In fact, as we have argued, governments may have hidden agendas and their priorities may fluctuate according to political cycles.
▪ The hidden agenda helps to explain although not to justify it.
▪ I should like to make a couple of points about the Bill's two substantive provisions before turning to its hidden agenda.
high
▪ In each of the schools, the library was clearly still high on the agenda for forward planning and review.
▪ The struggle for abortion rights was high on our agenda.
▪ In both cases, turf maintenance is high on the agenda - and head groundsman Steve Tingley is already is Paris.
▪ However, the key factor will be whether the president puts campaign finance reform high on his agenda for next year.
▪ In these circumstances it was no accident that planning and resourcing were high on the agenda for internal debate.
▪ Romance is high on the agenda, though.
▪ It is important that the rights of all minorities within all the territories should be high on the agenda at the conference.
▪ The struggle to survive has undoubtedly been higher up the agenda of some firms than preparing for the reforms.
international
▪ By the time the Ballot result was declared in June, Mussolini's Abyssinian ambitions dominated the international agenda.
▪ The missile defence issue is without question the most troublesome, time-consuming and potentially dangerous item on the current international agenda.
▪ In the meantime, new issues were dominating the international agenda, with new possibilities for cooperation between and beyond governments.
▪ Mr Brown has expended much effort pushing the issue up the international agenda.
▪ These issues have quickly moved on to the international agenda in the past few years, taking governments and industries by surprise.
▪ Mrs Chan's standing abroad helped keep Hong Kong on the international agenda.
▪ The issue is moving rapidly up the international development agenda.
legislative
▪ It also cleared the way for the Senate to take action on Mr Bush's cabinet nominees and his legislative agenda.
▪ With Carpenter, Kelly and Davies acting as a voting bloc, the board adopted a conservative legislative agenda.
▪ The chamber's procedural rules mean that the Democrats will now gain control of its legislative agenda.
▪ To be sure, an inaugural address is not the occasion for a president to list the details of his legislative agenda.
▪ Also, as the Senate leader, Dole can contrast himself with Clinton with a legislative agenda that reinforces his campaign message.
▪ However, Clinton has no illusions that the Republican Congress would react favorably to a legislative agenda, McCurry said.
▪ Thus far, only two relatively minor planks of the 10-point House-initiated legislative agenda have become law.
national
▪ This racialization of the debate was further propelled on to local and national agendas by campaigning black parents and teachers.
▪ The national reconstruction agenda is taking priority.
▪ By participating at an early stage, we hoped to have some influence on the national agenda.
▪ Already they are beginning to shape the new international and national political agendas.
new
▪ This is a formidable new agenda to be imposed - and implemented within a very short time-scale - on top of the existing programme.
▪ The New Democrat agenda of his 1992 campaign tried to update liberalism by pursuing new means to advance traditional Democratic goals.
▪ The evening has a new agenda.
▪ Then money dries up, new political agendas are drawn, the people leave, new ones cease to come.
▪ Few general elections or administrations map out a new agenda.
▪ He has to extend and define what the New Democrat agenda means in the post-Clinton era.
▪ We have a new leader, proven in office, and a new agenda - yet a tried set of principles.
▪ But neither side offers a major new agenda.
political
▪ Many artists in the 1930s followed an overtly political agenda.
▪ Federal tax law bars use of such funds to further a political agenda.
▪ It was fought on the narrowest of political agendas.
▪ The nature of the revolution, its many twists and turns, forces historians to declare their political agenda at the outset.
▪ In the short term, however, the Milan Conference had the beneficial result of placing deaf education on the political agenda.
▪ Then money dries up, new political agendas are drawn, the people leave, new ones cease to come.
▪ For the first time since he became leader, he is in the position to set the political agenda.
▪ Abortion is becoming a political football misrepresented by the right to raise money and advance political agendas.
real
▪ Instead of a real agenda, Dodd offers generalities about opportunity, job security and growth.
▪ Causing such changes to happen was not Ronald Reagan's real agenda in the first place.
republican
▪ Yet, the aspiration for social cohesion is the unstated aim of much of the republican agenda in New Labour.
social
▪ Second, it evacuates the social and political agendas that often informed the movements identified in favour of a deracinated art.
▪ President Clinton is also tinkering with private pension plans to finance his own social agenda.
▪ So they conclude with a social policy agenda.
▪ They have more than enough time in school if they stay off the social agendas.
▪ Fitting in with her hectic social agenda I was most conveniently dropped off and picked up by car.
▪ And so standards, in engineering, were not seen as the stalking-horse for some elitist social agenda.
▪ The students are generally hipper than Oregon Staters, with more body piercings per square inch and broader social agendas.
top
▪ That's top of the agenda.
■ NOUN
item
▪ You might have experimented by having a different person take the chair for different agenda items.
▪ He has signed into law several of his top agenda items, including a tougher juvenile justice code.
▪ It is not viable to create agenda items which partners will find irrelevant or unmanageable.
▪ On Wednesday 13 February, we met for the second time with pensions as the agenda item.
▪ Problems and progress in the evolution of teaching skills are an important agenda item for such meetings.
▪ As the name implies, the initial intention was more general than the agenda item and inorganic chemical nomenclature was included.
▪ Notice of agenda items to me please, preferably by the preceding Friday in each case.
policy
▪ So they conclude with a social policy agenda.
▪ The president will unveil a specific policy agenda in his State of the Union message Feb. 4.
▪ If there is, for example, an active regional policy, then regional issues need not be on the competition policy agenda.
▪ President Mitterand continued to be very active in foreign policy, but allowed the premier to control the domestic policy agenda.
▪ Her own policy agenda, as King notes, has often been separate from that of the Cabinet or Conservative party.
▪ Supporters and many critics agree that the old policy agenda has been turned upside down.
research
▪ Hence non-decision making must be part of the research agenda into community power.
▪ Unsolved problems provide much of the research agenda.
▪ In these studies, racism is also a more explicit part of the research agenda.
▪ Spatial analysis features particularly prominent on the research agenda relating to natural and technological hazards and geodemographics.
▪ This has recently been approved and the first meeting which will set a research agenda will be held in July 1989.
▪ For in defining any research agenda two pitfalls have to be avoided.
▪ The Centre has limited its research agenda initially to four programme areas.
■ VERB
advance
▪ It can advance the school's agenda by assisting academic and personal development.
▪ Abortion is becoming a political football misrepresented by the right to raise money and advance political agendas.
▪ At issue was whether Gingrich improperly used charitable enterprises to advance his partisan agenda.
dominate
▪ By the time the Ballot result was declared in June, Mussolini's Abyssinian ambitions dominated the international agenda.
▪ In the meantime, new issues were dominating the international agenda, with new possibilities for cooperation between and beyond governments.
▪ As usual, the papers predict that tax will dominate the agenda.
▪ If moderates fail to reach a compromise, or even to talk, the extremists on both sides will dominate the agenda.
▪ Balancing the budget dominated managerial agendas in practice.
hide
▪ When we inquired if there was some hidden agenda here, the good folk denied it, and we believe them.
▪ All the while there was a hidden agenda: to Salomonize the trainee.
▪ Instead, you will find hidden agendas and other problems continuing to undermine your collective performance and change.
▪ She has no hidden political agenda, but she does challenge the cultural inheritance that would encourage her silence.
implement
▪ But the experts rated Reno seventh for implementing the Clinton agenda.
▪ The latter were critical; only by effective network building could the new managers implement their agendas.
include
▪ The agenda includes the Tuscan countryside, with departures Aug. 29, Sept. 27 and Oct. 10.
pursue
▪ The NGOs are suspect because they are often foreign-funded and therefore, by definition, pursuing a foreigner's agenda.
▪ The two political parties pursued uncompromising ideological agendas.
push
▪ These programmes need to question and push forward the agenda of the news programmes.
▪ In an address to the House, Gingrich promised to push an activist agenda.
▪ And several senators are keener on pushing their own agendas than kowtowing to Mr Lott.
▪ They pushed an agenda to reverse recent academic reforms and give students more power within the university administration.
▪ Gays and progressives also pushed the same degaying agenda, Fumento charged, but for opposite reasons.
put
▪ Mr Rayner has also put crime on the agenda.
▪ I think that has to be put on the agenda and talked about.
▪ The council was informed about the anniversary two years ago but has dragged its heels over putting it on any agenda.
▪ We should put on the agenda the question: what is globalisation for?
▪ But the issue of Somerset House, which he has put on the political agenda, will not fade.
▪ I have not discussed that with the others yet but perhaps it is something to put on the agenda for the future.
▪ The Expenditure Sub-Committee put it on their agenda and questioned witnesses at length as to their views.
▪ But if issues like these have been put on the public agenda by feminists, the substantive gains they achieved were limited.
set
▪ Both men believe they are best-placed to set the agenda for Langbaurgh in the Nineties.
▪ Brown successfully set the agenda in 1993 with an innovative summit on the economy held early in the year in Los Angeles.
▪ As a result, the Bank's view set the agenda for subsequent reforms.
▪ They asked teachers to set the learning agenda for them-selves.
▪ But we have both a general reason for setting a classical agenda, and two particular ones.
▪ Since then, the middle class has set the political agenda and put the old-style politicians and generals on the defensive.
▪ He seemed like a man unable to set his own agenda.
▪ The first two criteria have to do with setting agendas and the others with building networks.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be (at the) top of the list/agenda
▪ Improving education is at the top of the mayor's agenda.
hidden agenda
▪ Although the work of the group is documented elsewhere, I feel I've gained considerably from the hidden agenda.
▪ Even this may still leave some hidden agendas lurking beneath the surface.
▪ For further advice on tactics for avoiding hidden agendas or surfacing them, see Games on page 71.
▪ Instead, you will find hidden agendas and other problems continuing to undermine your collective performance and change.
▪ It is only because of our fears and hidden agendas that we don't always get what we think we want.
▪ The London Implementation Group has no hidden agenda.
▪ There is frequently a hidden agenda in the use of games.
▪ What proved decisive, however, was part of the hidden agenda of unemployment.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Have you got a copy of the agenda for tomorrow's meeting?
▪ The fuel crisis will be at the top of the agenda for today's board meeting.
▪ The new leaders have been very aggressive in promoting their conservative agenda.
▪ What do you do if you want to discuss something that's not on the agenda?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ At first sight, then, the issue would not seem to be on the agenda.
▪ Few general elections or administrations map out a new agenda.
▪ In the meantime, federal economic development funds transform the municipal agenda.
▪ The election leaves it with no agenda for governing such division, even if it claims a victory.
▪ The first is the ability to communicate: to find a theme, to focus on an agenda.
▪ The following conferences did place racism on the agenda, and all white participants were expected to take it seriously.
▪ The president will unveil a specific policy agenda in his State of the Union message Feb. 4.
▪ Yet, the aspiration for social cohesion is the unstated aim of much of the republican agenda in New Labour.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
agenda

agenda \agenda\ ([.a]*j[e^]n"d[.a]), n. a temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to.

Syn: docket, schedule

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

Syn: agendum, docket, order of business

3. 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.

Syn: goal, hidden motive, secret motive, hidden agenda. [PJC] ||

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
agenda

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].

Wiktionary
agenda

n. 1 (context now rare English) (plural of agendum English) 2 A temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to. 3 A list of matters to be take up (as at a meeting). 4 A notebook used to organize and maintain such plans or lists, an agenda book, an agenda planner.

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WordNet
agenda

  1. n. a temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to [syn: docket, schedule]

  2. a list of matters to be taken up (as at a meeting) [syn: agendum, order of business]

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Gazetteer
Agenda, KS -- U.S. city in Kansas
Population (2000): 81
Housing Units (2000): 54
Land area (2000): 0.151556 sq. miles (0.392528 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.151556 sq. miles (0.392528 sq. km)
FIPS code: 00475
Located within: Kansas (KS), FIPS 20
Location: 39.708897 N, 97.432156 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 66930
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Wikipedia
Agenda

Agenda, literally "the things that must be done" in Latin, may refer to:

  • Agenda (meeting), points to be discussed; sometimes refers to the list of topics itself
  • Political agenda, the set of goals of an ideological group. In this context it is often used in a negative sense. It is also used as above, the topics under discussion by a government
  • Lotus Agenda, a piece of Personal Information Manager software
  • Agenda (liturgy), a book used in Lutheran worship
  • Personal organizer, also known as an agenda
Agenda (meeting)

An agenda is a list of meeting activities in the order in which they are to be taken up, beginning with the call to order and ending with adjournment. It usually includes one or more specific items of business to be acted upon. It may, but is not required to, include specific times for one or more activities. An agenda may also be called a docket, schedule, or calendar. It may also contain a listing of an order of business.

Agenda (poetry journal)

Agenda is a literary journal published in London and founded by William Cookson. Agenda Editions is an imprint of the journal operating as a small press.

Agenda (liturgy)

The name Agenda (“Things to be Done”; Germ. Agende or Kirchenagende) is given, particularly in the Lutheran Church, to the official books dealing with the forms and ceremonies of divine service.

Agenda (TVNZ programme)

Agenda was an hour-long current affairs show in New Zealand. It screened at 10 am on Sundays on TV ONE. Its final host was Rawdon Christie with political interviews conducted by Guyon Espiner. Christie and Espiner were joined each week by three panelists from the New Zealand media. In late November 2008 TVNZ announced they would not continue their contract with Frontpage, the producers. Despite speculation that another network may by the rights it was discontinued in 2009 and Q+A replaced it in the Sunday morning slot.

Agenda (BBC Scotland programme)

Agenda was a television current affairs programme broadcast on BBC Scotland during the early part of the 1980s airing most on Sundays at 1.25 pm, before moved to Friday evening.

It was a sister programme to the general current affairs programme Current Account, which first appear in the 1968 until May 1983.

Its first presenter was James Cox with producer Kenneth Cargill. The editor was Matthew Spicer.

Later the politician George Reid presented the programme and the producer was Kirsty Wark later to become a television presenter in her own right.

The series was replace by Left, right and Centre.

Agenda (TV series)

Agenda was an Irish weekly television current affairs programme broadcast by TV3. Produced by Fastnet Films between 1999 and 2004, the programme focused on the top current affairs and business issues of the week.

Agenda (feminist journal)

Agenda is an African peer-reviewed academic journal of feminism, which was established in 1987 as a volunteer project in South Africa and is published by UNISA Press in collaboration with Routledge. In addition to publishing articles and other entries, the journal tutors young writers and since 2002 has a radio show, Turning Up the Volume on Gender Equity. Since 1991 it publishes four issues per year.

Agenda (Swedish TV program)

Agenda is a Swedish TV program broadcast on Sveriges Television dealing with current events. The program started in 2001, hosted by Lars Adaktusson.

A commentary, a summary of the news week and a look at upcoming events were initially recurring segments but were later removed. The program has changed slot several times but is currently airing Sundays at 21.15 on SVT 2.

Agenda (Sky News Australia)

Agenda is the name given to a series of Australian television news and commentary programs, broadcast on Sky News Australia throughout the week. The Agenda series of bulletins serve as the channel's flagship program.

The series focuses on mainly political topics, and in each episode the host usually interviews a guest, and is then usually joined by either Sky News contributors or politicians from opposing sides of politics debating the issues of the day.

With the exception of Sunday Agenda and the Thursday episode of PM Agenda, the program is broadcast live from the Sky News studio at Parliament House in Canberra. The other programs are broadcast from the main Sky News centre in the Sydney suburb of Macquarie Park.

Lunchtime Agenda was axed on May 29, 2015 when it was replaced by To The Point co-hosted by Peter van Onslen and Kristina Keneally. Saturday Agenda ended in 2015, when its presenter David Lipson defected to the ABC and the format was eventually replaced by Pyne & Marles.

While the contemporary Australian Agenda debuted on 4 July 2010, the title had previously been used for a weekly interview program presented by John Gatfield in at least 2001. The edition rebranded as Sunday Agenda on 9 July 2016.

Agenda (think tank)

Agenda is a think tank focused on both politics in Norway and international affairs, located in Oslo, Norway. Agenda started up activities in August 2014. The think tank is headed by Marte Gerhardsen, a former diplomat and director of DNB ASA and secretary general of Care Norway. Chairman of the Board is the lawyer Geir Lippestad.

Agenda's research focuses particularly on five topics: Labour economics, welfare, integration, climate change and energy, as well as foreign policy. Occacionally, it has also commented on party tactics aiming to establish a broader alliance at the left spectrum of Norwegian politics. The think tank has a stated ideological orientation towards the center-left. It partly seeks a position in opposition to the liberal think tank Civita, which is funded by the Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise. Agenda is a non-partisan and non-profit entity funded jointly by the Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions (LO), and by the Norwegian CEO and philanthropist Trond Mohn.

In public discourse, the think tank has argued in favor of shifting towards taxing property objects with higher rates, in conjunction with reforming the Norwegian " Wealth Tax", as well as lowering income tax rates and the corporate tax. Agenda has also published reports on economic inequality, agriculture reform, test standards in the school system, labor productivity, green technology, social mobility, international development aid, and gender inequality in the work place.

Agenda (charity)

Agenda is a UK-based charity which campaigns for women and girls at risk. The charity aims to highlight the needs of what it considers to be the most excluded women and girls: those who have experienced extensive violence, abuse, trauma, and inequality, including problems such as homelessness, incarceration, addiction, serious mental health issues, engagement in prostitution, and other forms of multiple disadvantage. The organisation has 53 members, a mix of charities working with women across the various issues Agenda seeks to address.

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Usage examples of "agenda".

The occupiers and their agenda hold pride of place in most accounts, whereas the vanquished country itself is located in the postwar context of a world falling into antagonistic Cold War camps and discussed in terms of a vision of that moment which was distinctly American.

This agenda was never introduced to other American-occupied areas in Asia such as the southern half of Korea and the southern reaches of Japan itselfOkinawa and the Ryukyu Islandswhere harsh strategic considerations held sway.

It took months, however, before the reformers actually worked out the full, concrete implications of their ambitious agenda and conveyed this to the other side.

As with the basic reform agenda itself, the decision to rely on already existing machineries of government was formalized at the eleventh hour.

The old Japan hands who still controlled postsurrender planning anticipated a mild reform agenda at best.

Some individuals urged that the reform agenda be pushed more vigorously at the local level.

Yoshida Shigeru later ruefully explained that this had been his philosophy regarding the American reformist agenda in general.

Where the antitrust agenda was concerned, SCAP moved swiftly to clarify its policy of dissolving zaibatsu holding companies and eliminating zaibatsu family members as dominant share holders and officeholders.

He reached for his agenda and penciled in her name on the appropriate page.

Different men, different times, but with the same agenda, the same motivation.

He opened the first agenda and leafed through the pages, stopping to point out several of the entries that had merited his attention.

Nick picked up the agenda for 1979 and skimmed through the pages, finding the first referral to Goldluxe on March 13, 1979.

Indeed, based on its public agenda, The American Society of Newspaper Editors might think about changing its name to the American Society of Racial Bean Counters.

Americans thought NOW and other leading feminist organizations were selling out, for one and only one reason: Bill Clinton supported their agenda, especially their agenda on abortion.

Perhaps in addition to the other items on her agenda, Hillary Clinton will define for women that magical spot where the important work of the world and love and children and an inner life all come together.