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MEMORANDUM

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: memoranda   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A written proposal or reminder

Synonyms:

memo; memoranda; memorandum

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("memorandum" is a kind of...):

note (a brief written record)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "memorandum"):

aide-memoire; position paper (a memorandum summarizing the items of an agreement (used especially in diplomatic communications))

Credits

 Context examples: 

But one morning—I forget exactly the day—but perhaps it was the Tuesday or Wednesday before that evening, he wanted to make a memorandum in his pocket-book; it was about spruce-beer.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

I only hoped to find, and find I have, all that there was—only some letters and a few memoranda, and a diary new begun.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

He now drew out his notebook and jotted down one or two memoranda.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

After that, he slouched over his horse in his usual manner; and made no other reference to the subject except, half an hour afterwards, taking a piece of chalk from his pocket, and writing up, inside the tilt of the cart, Clara Peggotty—apparently as a private memorandum.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

We were struck with the fact, that in all the mass of material of which the record is composed, there is hardly one authentic document; nothing but a mass of typewriting, except the later note-books of Mina and Seward and myself, and Van Helsing's memorandum.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I am now in a condition to show, by—HEEP'S—false books, and—HEEP'S—real memoranda, beginning with the partially destroyed pocket-book (which I was unable to comprehend, at the time of its accidental discovery by Mrs. Micawber, on our taking possession of our present abode, in the locker or bin devoted to the reception of the ashes calcined on our domestic hearth), that the weaknesses, the faults, the very virtues, the parental affections, and the sense of honour, of the unhappy Mr. W. have been for years acted on by, and warped to the base purposes of—HEEP.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Every scrap of paper was gone, and with it all my notes, my memoranda, relating to railways and travel, my letter of credit, in fact all that might be useful to me were I once outside the castle.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)