Memorandum

//ˌmɛm.əˈɹæn.dəm// noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A short note serving as a reminder.

    "....be more difficult or uncertain than it had been for so many weeks, I had scarcely for a moment adverted to it as necessary, or placed it amongst my memoranda against this parting interview; and my final anxieties being spent in comforting her with hopes, and in pressing upon her the necessity of getting some medicines for a violent cough and hoarseness with which she was troubled, I wholly forgot it until it was too late to recall her."

  2. 2
    a written proposal or reminder wordnet
  3. 3
    A written business communication.

    "The Trump administration will allow federal workers to promote their religious beliefs to colleagues, display religious items at work and pray together or individually, according to a memorandum issued Monday by the Office of Personnel Management."

  4. 4
    A brief diplomatic communication.
  5. 5
    A page in an annual publication honoring the memory of a person who died during the past year.

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin memorandum, neuter of memorandus (“to be remembered”).

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