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agenda | American Dictionary

agenda
noun[ C ]
us/əˈdʒen·də/
a list of matters to be discussed at a meeting:
Among the items on the agenda were next year’s budget and raising the membership dues.
An agenda can also refer to any matters that have to be dealt with:
Finding a job is at the top of my agenda.
esp. disapproving An agenda is also a particular program of action, often one that is not directly expressed:
She has a political agenda.

agenda | Business English

agenda
noun[ C ]
uk /əˈdʒendə/us
the things that a person or organization considers to be important and wants to solve or achieve, or their reasons for wanting to do something:
Agendas change with the times, as every CEO knows.
economic/environmental/political agendaThe Senator's environmental agenda is negative for traditional energy producers, but positive for alternative energy producers.
be at the top of/be high on the agendaThe plight of poorer countries is high on the WTO's agenda.
Like any businessman he has an agenda, and that should not be forgotten.
set/lay out/establish an agendaCompany directors are attempting to lay out an agenda for reducing future financial risks.
I strongly suspect that the author has a hidden agenda.
MEETINGS
a list of things to be discussed during a meeting:
If you don't have a structured agenda, people will bring up side issues that aren't relevant to solving the problem.
The next item on the agenda is a special report from the Advisory Committee.
be at the top of/be high on the agendaAt a meeting of finance ministers in St Petersburg, security of energy supply was at the top of the agenda.

Examples of agenda

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Finally, some recent developments which promise at least a partial merging of agendas will be examined.
Other responses were shaped by specific nationalist and unionist agendas.
Rather, we seek by way of conclusion to comment on the implications of the findings for the family law and policy agendas.
The commentaries in newspapers were more about candidates than about political agendas.
Rather than state-of-the-art chapters, they can be better described as products of their authors' own particular, more specific research agendas.
Three possible scenarios are discussed extensively : mutually reinforcing flight from the world ; conflicting religiopolitical agendas ; and prophetic catalysts moving in tandem.
Commentators in turn refer to the agendas that candidates formulate as 'what this election is about'.
The agendas to increase public health activity, liberate talents and modernize leadership are brought together to expose the challenges, tensions and potential solutions.
Language teaching status when set alongside other knowledge hierarchies supported by wider societal and education agendas.
Certainly both are ruthless in pursuit of their agendas.
Technology and second language learning: expanding methods and agendas.
Such agendas were a reprise of similar agendas in the early years of jazz.
Metagovernance is also political, because, as we have seen, it involves identifying key stakeholders, setting agendas and structuring outcomes.
As the moment at which the two characters and their opposing agendas first come into contact (and conflict), the piece repays detailed examination.
If and when they became preachers or ulama, they used the minbar (pulpit) to pursue political agendas.
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Collocations withagenda

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These are words often used in combination with agenda.

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ambitious agenda
For obvious reasons, his position is not generally publicly embraced by those with a more ambitiousagenda for traditional approaches.
broad agenda
The chapter ends with a broadagenda for future research to address these issues.
domestic agenda
Now he needs one; he desperately needs that war for his own domesticagenda.
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