agenda item
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- noun
- /əˈdʒɛndə ˈaɪtəm/
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punto del orden del día
- The committee will discuss three important agenda items at today's meeting.
- an important agenda item
- set agenda items
We have two basic agenda items today.
- We have two basic agenda items today.
- The remaining agenda item to have our community have to be implemented.
Examples
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Collaboration is a big topic at the moment, and it's now an agenda item for many senior executives.
Blog text (19) -
Thus, poverty alleviation has become an important agenda item for governments all over the world.
Academic text (2007) -
Determining the agenda items was the most difficult.
Academic text (2002) -
A thorough discussion of each agenda item is important.
Academic text (2003) -
The National Parents and Teachers Association has made television a priority agenda item; the National Association for Gifted Children has not.
Academic text (1992) -
Pentagon officials have been unable to spot any particular pattern in the Russian choice of which agenda items to accept or refuse.
Academic text (1999) -
Leo Hostetler, board president, introduced the next agenda item.
Fiction book (1993) -
However, this issue did not emerge as a major agenda item in Canberra.
Academic text (1991) -
The facilitator's role is not to hurry through the agenda items, but to aid in the communication process to ensure every team member has an equal voice.
Academic text (2014) -
All teaching assistants should be invited to attend faculty meetings, especially those in which agenda items directly affect the responsibilities of the teaching assistants.
Academic text (1991)
Synonyms
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1.0
An item in an argument or on a list
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1.0
A single thing in a list or collection
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2.7
A topic that people discuss or think about
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A subject people talk about in a conversation
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The thing people are talking about now
Antonyms
How Important
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'an individual subject listed for discussion' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'agenda' (a list of items for discussion) with 'item' (a distinct unit in a list). This simple noun–noun composition follows common cross-linguistic patterns and will be immediately understandable to a B1 learner who knows both constituent words.
Etymology
Agenda item comes from the idea of a meeting list: agenda originally meant 'things to be done' and item means one single thing on that list. So an agenda item is 'a topic' written down to be discussed at the meeting.