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Agenda is a related term of inventory.


As nouns the difference between agenda and inventory

is that agenda is agenda (a temporally organized plan or list of things to be addressed) while inventory is (operations) the stock of an item on hand at a particular location or business.

As a verb inventory is

(operations) to take stock of the resources or items on hand; to produce an inventory.

agenda

English

(wikipedia agenda)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to.
  • * July 18 2012 , Scott Tobias, AV Club The Dark Knight Rises [http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-dark-knight-rises-review-batman,82624/]
    • Where the Joker preys on our fears of random, irrational acts of terror, Bane has an all-consuming, dictatorial agenda that’s more stable and permanent, a New World Order that’s been planned out with the precision of a military coup.
  • A list of matters to be taken up (as at a meeting).
  • A notebook used to organize and maintain such plans or lists, an agenda book, an agenda planner.
  • * 2005 , Linda Wilmshurst, Alan W. Brue, A Parent's Guide To Special Education: Insider Advice On How To Navigate The System And Help Your Child Succeed , ISBN 0814472834, page 145
    • A homework agenda , sometimes called a student planner, is a notebook often used to help your child keep track of daily homework assignments.
  • * 2011 , Spencer Marc Aronfeld, Make It Your Own Law Firm: The Ultimate Law Student's Guide to Owning, Managing, and Marketing Your Own Successful Law Firm , AuthorHouse, page 12
    • It may be better to simply buy an agenda at the drug store for five dollars, but you need to keep this stuff accurate.
  • * 2011 , David Campos, Rocio Delgado, Mary Esther Huerta, Reaching Out to Latino Families of English Language Learners , ISBN 1416612726, page 160
    • The children will use an agenda book that the school provides to organize their homework information. Before leaving for home, the children will neatly write their assignments and related directions in their agendas .

    Usage notes

    The word agenda'' is the Latin plural of ''agendum'', but in English the word ''agenda'' is usually taken as a singular, and ''item on the agenda used for individual things in the list.

    Synonyms

    * (temporally organized plan) docket, worklist, schedule

    Derived terms

    * hidden agenda

    inventory

    English

    (wikipedia inventory)

    Noun

    (inventories)
  • (operations) The stock of an item on hand at a particular location or business
    • Due to an undersized inventory at the Boston outlet, customers had to travel to Providence to find the item.
  • (operations) a detailed list of all of the items on hand
    • The inventory included several items that one wouldn't normally think to find at a cheese shop.
  • (operations) the process of producing or updating such a list
    • This month's inventory took nearly three days.
  • (lb) A space containing the available to a character for immediate use.

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    Related terms

    * invent * invented * inventive * invention * inventor * reinvent

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • (operations) To take stock of the resources or items on hand; to produce an inventory.
    • The main job of the night shift was to inventory the store, and restock when necessary.

    Synonyms

    * (take stock) index

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