agendaの意味・使い方・発音

agenda

英 [ə'dʒendə] 美 [ə'dʒɛndə]

agenda: agenda: [17] Agenda is the plural of Latin agendum, which is the gerundive form of the verb agere ‘do’ (see AGENT); it thus means literally ‘things to be done’. When the word first entered the language it was given an anglicized singular form, agend, with the plural agends, but this seems to have disappeared by the 18th century. The formal plurality of agenda is still often insisted on by purists, but it has been used as a singular noun since the mid 18th century.
=> act, agent
agenda (n.): 1650s, from Latin agenda, literally "things to be done," neuter plural of agendus, gerundive of agere "to do" (see act (n.)). Originally theological (opposed to matters of belief), sense of "items of business to be done at a meeting" first attested 1882. "If a singular is required (=one item of the agenda) it is now agendum, the former singular agend being obsolete" [Fowler].

1. Never before has a summit had such a crowded agenda .: これまでサミットの日程がこんなに埋まったことは一度もなかった。

2.On arrival，a six-course meal was top of the agenda .: 彼らが到着したら最初にすることは、6つの料理を食べることです。

3.Officials tussled over who had responsibility for the newly fashionable unemployment agenda .: 最近注目されている失業問題を誰が担当するかをめぐって、多くの役人が争っている。

4.The Danish president will put environmental issues high on the agenda .: デンマーク大統領は環境問題を重要な位置に置こうとしている。

5.Education，quite rightly，is currently at the forefront of the political agenda .: 現在、教育は政治アジェンダのトップにランクされており、これは非常に適切である。