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 .

Noun

(en noun)

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, title= A new prescription , passage=As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants. But even that Sisyphean task looks easy next to the fight against synthetic drugs. No sooner has a drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one.}}

Any set of instructions for preparing a mixture of ingredients.

By extension, a plan or procedure to obtain a given end result.

*{{quote-magazine, date=2014-06-21, volume=411, issue=8892, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Magician’s brain , passage=[Isaac Newton] was obsessed with alchemy. He spent hours copying alchemical recipes and trying to replicate them in his laboratory. He believed that the Bible contained numerological codes. The truth is that Newton was very much a product of his time.}}

Now especially, a set of instructions for making or preparing food dishes.

A set of conditions and parameters of an industrial process to obtain a given result.