agenda[əˈdʒen.də]
a list of the points to be discussed at a meeting
ExamplesSend round the agenda beforehand.
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Ten words that carry a working day: the meeting that could have been an email, the deadline, the colleague covering for you.
The for the meeting arrived four minutes before it started, which is its own kind of message. We spent the first half on an nobody had asked for, and the second half discovering that the had moved. My offered to for me on Friday so I could finish the report, and then quietly asked whether I could the at all this month. I said yes, which was a guess; I have done every evening since Monday and the pile has not moved. Afterwards I wrote to the client, apologised for the delay, and promised a by Monday. They the review, which helped nobody but felt like mercy. Everyone is behind on something; we simply take it in turns to admit it.