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agenda

Agenda

Latin

Classical Latin/aˈɡen.da/English/əˈd͡ʒen.də/
The things that must be done — a word that went from prayer lists to power politics.

Agenda is the neuter plural gerundive of Latin agere (to do, to drive, to act): agenda literally means 'things that must be done.' It is grammatically plural — each item on a list is an agendum — though English has long treated it as a singular noun.

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