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单词 agenda
释义
agendaa‧gen‧da /əˈdʒendə/ ●●○ noun [countable] Word Origin
WORD ORIGINagenda
Origin:
1600-1700 Latin ‘things to be done’, from agere; ➔ AGENT
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • 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 THE 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.
Thesaurus
THESAURUS
a set of names, places, jobs you need to do etc, which are written one below the other: · Henry’s name wasn’t on the list.· She made a list of the people she wanted to invite to the wedding.· Could I have a list of hotels in Bournemouth and the surrounding area?· I forgot to bring my shopping list with me.
a list of things you need or things you have to do which you keep in order to help you remember them: · Use a checklist when visiting properties to buy, so that you keep a record of which features you liked and didn’t like.· I made a checklist of things I needed to do before the holiday.
a list of the most suitable people for a job or prize, chosen from a larger group of people: · Her name is on the shortlist for the Booker Prize.· You were lucky to even get onto the shortlist.· A shortlist is drawn up, from which the successful candidate will be chosen.
an official list containing the names of all the people, organizations, or things of a particular type: · a register of qualified translators· a civil register of births, deaths, and marriages· Make sure your name is on the electoral register (=the official list of people who can vote).
British English, program American English a list of all the activities or events that have been planned, especially one that shows when each event will happen: · First on the programme is a speech by the organizer, Mrs Jenkins.· A spectacular program of exhibitions, displays and competitions has been planned.· Because of bad weather, our programme of events has had to be changed slightly.
a list of the subjects that will be discussed at a meeting: · Have you got a copy of the agenda for tomorrow’s meeting?· the next item on the agenda· The fuel crisis will be at the top of the agenda for today’s board meeting.
an alphabetical list of names and subjects at the back of a book, that shows which page they are mentioned on: · It’s a lot quicker if you use the index.· I looked up his name in the index.
a list of everything in a house, factory, or shop, written so that you know exactly what is there: · Some of the things in the shop were not listed in the inventory.· The company keeps a full inventory of its equipment.make an inventory: · She made an inventory of everything in the apartment.
a detailed plan of what someone is going to do and when they will do it, especially someone important: · He has a very busy schedule.· The president’s schedule includes a two-day visit to St Petersburg.
British English, schedule American English a written list that shows the exact times when something will happen, for example when planes or buses leave, or when classes at school take place: · The timetable said there was another train at 6.15.· According to the class schedule, English 104 is at 10 am in Royce Hall.
British English, program American English a plan that shows the order of activities at a ceremony, sports meeting, public event etc: · Who is organizing the conference programme?· the next event on the program
a list of the subjects that will be discussed at a meeting: · Attached is the agenda for the budget committee meeting.· the final item on the agenda
a plan for when things will happen or how long you think something will take – used especially in business English: · The timeline for the project is less than six months from start to finish.· What is the usual timeline from the sale of a house to the day you can move in?
a plan or list of the places you will visit on a journey, usually with the date or time that you will be there: · The Travel Pack includes a detailed itinerary, maps, and a travel guide.· Let me know your itinerary when you know it.
Longman Language Activatorwhen something is discussed
· The issues have been widely discussed, but so far no one has drawn any conclusions.· Healthy eating is much discussed these days, and several books have been published on the subject.be widely discussed · Questions about how to raise children have been widely discussed.
if something such as a situation, plan, or proposal is under discussion , people are discussing it with the intention of deciding what to do about it: · A proposal to reduce the size of the army has been under discussion for some time now.· A title for the new book is still under discussion.
if something affecting the public or society is on the agenda , most people have heard of it and are talking about it: · The recent riots have put the problem of unemployment back on the agenda.be high on the agenda: · The prevention of ordinary crime has been high on the agenda for ten years.
most important
· This was possibly the most important scientific discovery of the 20th century.· For Muslims, this is the most important day of the year.· If there is a fire, the most important thing is to get all the students out of the building immediately.
the most important thing, which needs to be dealt with before anything else or given more attention than anything else: · First, let's decide what our priorities are.· My main priority is get through all my exams.first/top/number one priority: · Safety has always been our number one priority.give priority to something (=decide that something is very important, and deal with it urgently): · The President promised to give priority to reducing unemployment.
something that is urgent must be dealt with or done as soon as possible, especially because something very bad could happen if it is not: · I've got one or two urgent letters to write.· Your sister's been calling -- I think it's urgent.· An international effort is required to cope with the urgent needs of the earthquake victims.
to be the most important and urgent of all the things that have to be done, especially by a government or company: · Getting inflation down is at the top of the agenda.· The government were reluctant to put equal pay for women anywhere near the top of the agenda.
if someone or something takes precedence over someone or something else, they are more important and need to be dealt with first: · Don't keep Mr Rawlings waiting, he takes precedence over any other client.· Once again, the leader's wishes have taken precedence over the students' demands.
: overriding need/concern/consideration etc the thing that is most important and must be dealt with before anything else: · The overriding need here is to end the civil war.· an overriding concern to secure business efficiency
more important than anything else: · The patients' wishes and needs are paramount and they must always come before our own.· While some musical ability is necessary, it is not the paramount concern.of paramount importance: · Public safety and security are matters of paramount importance.
a list of events or activities
British /program American a list of all the activities or events that have been planned, especially one that shows when each event will happen: on a programme: · First on the programme is a speech by the organizer, Mrs Jenkins.programme of: · A spectacular program of exhibitions, displays and competitions has been planned.· Because of bad weather, our programme of events has had to be changed slightly.
a list of events or activities that shows when each one will happen: · According to the schedule, the first lecture begins at 9.00 am.· The President's schedule included a visit to a children's hospital.
a list of the subjects that will be discussed at a meeting: · Have you got a copy of the agenda for tomorrow's meeting?on an agenda: · What do you do if you want to discuss something that's not on the agenda?(at the) top of an agenda: · The fuel crisis will be at the top of the agenda for today's board meeting.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRYphrases
· New measures to combat terrorism are high on the agenda.
· Energy efficiency is top of the agenda.
· Immigration is an important issue on the political agenda.
verbs
· Brown has an agenda for the university’s future.
(=decide on the problems you want to deal with)· The new government set an agenda for constitutional reform.
· This incident has put the issue of racism firmly back on the agenda.
· The meeting ended in chaos as representatives were unable to agree an agenda.
(=begin to have an agenda)· We need to establish an agenda for future research.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
· The next item on the agenda is next month’s sales conference.
(=establish what subjects should be discussed)· We are not attempting to set the agenda for other women’s groups.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· Yet, the aspiration for social cohesion is the unstated aim of much of the republican agenda in New Labour.
· 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.
· That's top of the agenda.
NOUN
· 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.
· 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.
· 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
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· The agenda includes the Tuscan countryside, with departures Aug. 29, Sept. 27 and Oct. 10.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
  • 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.
  • Improving education is at the top of the mayor's agenda.
1a list of problems or subjects that a government, organization etc is planning to deal withbe high on the agenda/be top of the agenda (=be one of the most important problems to deal with) Measures to combat terrorism will be high on the agenda. The government set an agenda for constitutional reform.political/economic/legislative/domestic etc agenda Our Centre has limited its research agenda to four areas.2the ideas that a political party thinks are important and the things that party aims to achieve:  The Republicans have stuck to their conservative agenda.3a list of the subjects to be discussed at a meeting:  the next item (=subject) on the agenda → hidden agenda at hidden2(3)COLLOCATIONSphrasesbe high on the agenda· New measures to combat terrorism are high on the agenda.be (at the) top of the agenda· Energy efficiency is top of the agenda.be on the political agenda· Immigration is an important issue on the political agenda.verbshave an agenda· Brown has an agenda for the university’s future.set an agenda (=decide on the problems you want to deal with)· The new government set an agenda for constitutional reform.put something on the agenda· This incident has put the issue of racism firmly back on the agenda.agree an agenda· The meeting ended in chaos as representatives were unable to agree an agenda.establish/create/provide an agenda (=begin to have an agenda)· We need to establish an agenda for future research.
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