agenda

Universal Words noun a list of items to be discussed at a meeting: The next item on the agenda is the publicity budget. * For the government, education is now at the top of the agenda (= most important). * In our company, quality is high on the agenda. * Newspapers have been accused of trying to set the agenda for the government (= decide what is important). seealsoHIDDENAGENDA ______________________________ WHICHWORD? agenda / diary / schedule / timetable / itinerary A book with a space for each day where you write down things that you have to do in the future is called a diary or a datebook (AmE) (not an agenda). You may also have a calendar on your desk or hanging up in your room, where you write down your appointments. A diary or a journal is also the record that some people keep of what has happened during the day: the Diary of Anne Frank. In BrE your schedule is a plan that lists all the work that you have to do and when you must do each thing and a timetable is a list showing the fixed times at which events will happen: a bus/train timetable.In AmE these are both called a schedule. An itinerary is a plan of a journey, including the route and the places you visit. ______________________________