Sample sentences for AGENDA - verbalworkout.com

2 meanings

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1 —as in:
on the agenda

Definition

a list of items to be discussed at a meeting

Everyone received a copy of the agenda the day before the meeting.

agenda = a list of items to be discussed at a meeting

Other Uses (with this meaning)

What's on today's agenda?

agenda = list of items to discuss at a meeting

Nobody quotes us by name, yet, but they're discussing the points we raise. We're helping set the agenda.
Orson Scott Card -- Ender's Game

agenda = list of items to be discussed

You're the only buggin' thing on the agenda. And with that, he turned and walked away, leaving Thomas to wonder why in the world a Gathering was needed just to talk about him.
James Dashner -- The Maze Runner

agenda = list of items to be discussed

Among other things, a game plan for fruit stealing would be on the agenda.
Markus Zusak -- The Book Thief

agenda = list of items to be discussed

"Okay," Phoebe said, "an agenda is a..."
"So maybe it's for your dad," I suggested. "Does he go to meetings?"
Sharon Creech -- Walk Two Moons

agenda = a list of items to be discussed at a meeting

Phoebe explained what an agenda was.
Sharon Creech -- Walk Two Moons

agenda = a list of items to be discussed at a meeting

I know what an agenda is, Phoebe.
Sharon Creech -- Walk Two Moons

agenda = a list of items to be discussed at a meeting

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2 —as in:
has his own agenda

Definition

a list of objectives; or an overriding goal or plan

Slowing climate change is at the top of their agenda.

agenda = list of objectives

Other Uses (with this meaning)

If you put her in charge, she will push her own agenda more than she will facilitate ideas from the group.

agenda = overriding goal or plan

What's on the agenda today?

agenda = list of things to do

Lying in bed was the only thing on the agenda.
Wes Moore -- The Other Wes Moore

agenda = list of things to do

"What's next on the bloody agenda?"
"Just thought you'd like to eat something, maybe take a shower. Sleep."
James Dashner -- The Scorch Trials

agenda = list of things to do

The message was: Everyone has his own agenda.
Sharon Creech -- Walk Two Moons

agenda = reasons or goals that motivate behavior

She gave herself over to the new life that awaited her in this city, a life with a father, with sisters and brothers, a life in which she would love and be loved back, without reservation or agenda, without shame.
Khaled Hosseini -- A Thousand Splendid Suns

agenda = a goal to get something

For one quick moment we both had the same agenda.
Sharon Creech -- Walk Two Moons

agenda = reasons or goals that motivate behavior

I saw everyone else going on with their own agendas while Mrs. Cadaver was frantically trying to keep her husband and her mother alive.
Sharon Creech -- Walk Two Moons

agendas = reasons or goals that motivate behavior

Roland uses it to further his own agenda of fear after all, he was the one who very publicly predicted that Emby would vanish.
Neal Shusterman -- Unwind

agenda = goal or plan

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Less commonly:

Much less commonly, agenda can refer to a notebook used to organize appointments and lists of tasks or plans.

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