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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
memo
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
writing/sketch/memo/legal etc pad
▪ a box of paints and a sketch pad
▪ Keep a telephone pad and a pen to hand.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
internal
▪ The former was written in the style of an internal memo while the latter was crass and patronising, he said.
▪ An internal memo from an official in Gov.
▪ Write replies to internal memos on the same piece of paper.
▪ Most have written both published columns and internal memos, including pointed criticism of specific stories and decisions.
■ NOUN
pad
▪ She scribbled something on her memo pad and slid the paper across the desk to him.
▪ I was looking through a desk drawer and came across the red leather memo pad that was part of the same set.
■ VERB
read
▪ And then Rudi went back to his desk and did something I never would have expected-he read his memo to Dean Fiellin.
▪ Instead of using your train time to read two more interoffice memos, give yourself a break and read something for fun.
▪ Amanda waited while the group read the memo.
▪ He looked the way I felt when I first read his memo.
▪ We assume he has informed the involved teams, but perhaps some failed to read the memo.
▪ You are sitting in your office, and your hand is shaking as you read the memo announcing a new corporate restructuring.
send
▪ I have sent out a memo to all staff reminding them of the procedure for sickness.
▪ They sent out the obligatory memo both before and after the project.
▪ She sent me memos, left Eugenia phone messages.
▪ It also sent the memo by certified mail, with return receipt requested.
write
▪ Don't make the call, don't write the memo, don't attend the meeting.
▪ There is nothing worse than asking students to write a memo to Macbeth.
▪ Use both sides of every piece of paper. Write replies to internal memos on the same piece of paper.
▪ Robert Pafford, the regional director, wrote a memo to Dominy discussing the options the Bureau had.
▪ Too many managers in this country want to sit in their offices and write memos.
▪ The order angered Marshall, who wrote the president a memo of compliance that also expressed objection to the commission.
▪ And try to minimize contact, she suggests. Write memos instead of dropping into his office.
▪ You write a memo on the one in the office, copy it to disk and take it home.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A memo went around the office, reminding staff of the new dress code.
▪ He noticed a memo from the chairman on Wilson's desk.
▪ I have sent out a memo to all staff, reminding them of the procedure for taking sick leave.
▪ Mr. Fitchel said he made the suggestion in a memo to his superiors.
▪ The Managing Director sent out a memo to all employees saying there would be a meeting at 10 o'clock.
▪ The meeting's been cancelled. Didn't you get my memo?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But memos at the time suggest the government knew exactly what was bound to happen, and turned a blind eye.
▪ But some doctors say while the memo may have been withdrawn, the unfairness remains.
▪ I sent him a stiffly worded memo telling him exactly what I thought of that.
▪ I tell him about a paper cut I got Xeroxing memos at work.
▪ Parmenter was handling the actual production of the memo on a suitable typewriter and stationery.
▪ People expect these two strata to answer the phone, to draft a memo.
▪ Propped up against his telephone was a fresh inter-departmental memo.
▪ Unfortunately, my memos were not getting read, because they were not getting through.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
memo

1889, shortening of memorandum (q.v.).

Wiktionary
memo

n. 1 A short note; a memorandum. 2 (context computing English) A record of partial results that can be reused later without recomputation. vb. 1 (context informal English) To record something; to make a note of something. 2 (context informal English) To send someone a note about something, for the record.

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WordNet
memo

n. a written proposal or reminder [syn: memorandum, memoranda]

Wikipedia
Mémo

Mémo is a compilation album by the French progressive rock band Ange. It was released in 1994.

Memo (footballer)

Emerson Gomes de Moura known simply as '''Memo ''' (born February 11, 1988 in Bonito), is a Brazilian footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for América FC.

Memo (EP)

Memo is the debut extended play (EP) by Australian singer Grace.

Memo (rower)

Memo (born 8 January 1995) is an Indonesian rower. He competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, in the men's single sculls. He is one of the first Indonesians to compete in rowing at the Olympics along side Dewi Yuliawati. He qualified for the Olympics because of his performance at the 2016 Asia & Oceania Continental Qualification Regatta in Chungju, South Korea.

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Whenever such a meeting took place, someone at the local embassy--usually a State Department employee--would write up a codel memo and cable it to D.

The entire plan, detailed in memos between the CEO of Life Care, Matthew Darst, and their head tech, to discredit Accu-Read and ruin them, while in the process stealing their technology.

Company officers across Germany heard the story on the grapevine and slipped him memos and Ebby boiled them down to an indictment, which he read aloud to the board of inquiry.

CBS News, where its president, Andrew Heyward, put out the following in-house memo.

He was focusing on the revelation of his involvement with Lodestar and his long relationship with Victor Farinholt, on the insider-trading charge, which was rumored to be imminent, and on the Lane Memo, as it was being called.

A memo that outlined how the President had directed Lodestar to invest in Penn-Mar for him because he knew it was going to be taken over.

March 25, Lytton had completed a nine-page memo on the organization of a White House Iran-contra legal task force.

So she put her best psycholinguistic training into composing a memo that would look urgent enough to satisfy Dr.

Memo: Scan the locket, use Photoshop to rescale it and print it on paper, then see if the pattern works as a focus when I look at it on a clipboard.

You may recall the flapette late in the mercifully over elections concerning a memo written by Alice Rivlin, one of the most consistently realistic deficit hawks in the Clinton administration.

AIMSX was an internal business network for BellSouth, where telco employees stored electronic mail, databases, memos, and calendars, and did text processing.

Anything typed into it could be printed out in any form the system was capable of: a memo, a letter, a file, a report.

As the meeting began to melt away in my inner eardrone-fests, I called these Friday affairsI jotted down my version of the memo Weede would compose when poor Warburton died.

It made me think of Warburton for a moment, his final memo, and I began to juggle the alphabet, to fit it together finally, three names from two, anagrammatized, a last .