Agendas

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. Collections of topics planned for discussion during meetings
2. Lists of subjects intended to be addressed during formal gatherings
3. A sequence of issues scheduled for consideration at a meeting

Etymology: "Agendas" is simply the plural of "agenda", so the story belongs to the singular. The Latin "agenda" was a gerundive, the form of a verb that expresses something that must or ought to be done, and it came from "agere", "to do, act, make". Its plural was used in Latin for matters that required action, which is why the English word still carries the sense of things to be done. English took the word directly from Latin, and its early use stayed close to that original meaning: a list of things that needed doing. Over time it moved from the tasks themselves to the record of them, so that a document setting out business for a meeting became the usual sense. The plural "agendas" is the form used when several such lists or sets of topics are meant, which is how the word is most often seen in practice.

Synonyms: plans, schedules, programs, lists, itineraries

Antonyms: disorganization