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Memorandum
Definitions
- 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 a written proposal or reminder wordnet
- 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 A brief diplomatic communication.
- 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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