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at the top of the/(one's) agenda

Prioritized as the most important thing to discuss or address. Yes, the new dress code is at the top of my agenda to discuss with the principal. What do you think is at the top of the agenda for today's meeting?

have an agenda

To have a secret goal or ulterior motive. I didn't trust Julie when she started being really nice to me out of the blue. It felt like she had an agenda. It seems pretty clear that the new theater has a political agenda, judging by the rhetoric of all the plays they've been producing.

hidden agenda

A secret goal or an ulterior motive. I didn't trust Julie when she started being really nice to me out of the blue. It felt like she had a hidden agenda. I'm starting to wonder if the boss has a hidden agenda because he promised me the job but now he won't return my calls.

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high on the/(one's) agenda

Prioritized as the most important thing to discuss or address. Yes, the new dress code is high on my agenda to discuss with the principal. What do you think is high on the agenda for today's meeting?

on (one's) agenda

Planned by one to be discussed, engaged in, or acted upon. I don't mind touching on it briefly, but a big classroom debate on the matter is not on my agenda. She made it clear that bringing forward legislation to address climate change will be on her agenda for her time in office.

on the agenda

Planned to be discussed, engaged in, or acted upon. I don't mind touching on it briefly, but a big classroom debate on the matter is not on the agenda. She made it clear that bringing forward legislation to address climate change will be on the agenda for her time in office.

set the agenda

To dictate the course of action or the items that will be discussed, typically as a show of authority. The CEO made it clear from his first day that he would be setting the agenda for the company and its future. Dan likes to set the agenda at these meetings, so just roll with it if he changes the order of the presentations.

(a) hidden agenda

Fig. a secret plan; a concealed plan; a plan disguised as a plan with another purpose. I am sure that the chairman has a hidden agenda. I never did trust him anyway.

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a hidden agenda

COMMON If someone has a hidden agenda, they are secretly trying to achieve something while they appear to be doing something else. The unions fear these tactics are part of a hidden agenda to reduce pay and conditions throughout the company. The hidden agenda of the Government's prison privatisation policy seems to have been exposed. Note: An agenda is a list of things that need to be dealt with, for example at a meeting.

See also: agenda, hidden

Collins COBUILD Idioms Dictionary, 3rd ed. © HarperCollins Publishers 2012

a hidden agenda

a person's real but concealed aims and intentions.

1993 New Scientist I hear that the physics community is fearful the government has a hidden agenda and intends eventually to close the Daresbury Laboratory.

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The second point relating to the two networks is that issues on both agendas had different thresholds.

Focusing specifically on the media and political agendas, as well as their dynamics on Twitter, the research context and presumptions are quite different from the previous literature.

Who Sets the Agenda? Polarization and Issue Ownership in Turkey's Political Twittersphere

Para Kingdon (2003) estos asuntos tienen un efecto denominado bowling over (rodamiento (6)), como parte del cual son capaces de "aplastar" a otros temas que se encuentran previamente posicionados en las agendas.

Ambas concepciones son similares, aunque la primera tendencia investigativa (Birkland, 2016) refuerza el estudio de las agendas politicas y su capacidad de reaccionar ante las demandas (fundamentalmente materiales y de orientacion) de las personas.

Repercusion de la muerte de Fidel Castro en Santiago de Cuba. Aparicion y evolucion del event en las agendas politica y mediatica

He confirmed that there is no blueprint or proposed budget for the big four agendas instead they have been included with the respective ministries.

There must be close collaboration with counties to implement the big four agendas and already there is consultations with governors within IEBC,' National Treasury officials said

Uhuru's Big Four agenda facing opposition in NASA counties

Many future sales come from producers putting the deferred topics on the agenda.

Next, send the agenda to the customer about a week in advance of the meeting with any other information for their review in preparation for the meeting, such as schedules of insurance and a list of autos and drivers.

The most important thing: setting the agenda: careful thought and preparation in advance of a client or prospect meeting is key

Relacion entre objetos y atributos en la agenda politica y las agendas mediaticas.

Para evaluar la dimension sustantiva de los objetos, se estudiaron 148 atributos que conformaban las agendas mediaticas y la agenda politica en el periodo seleccionado.

Construccion de la agenda mediatica en Santiago de Cuba. Propuesta de modelo sobre el funcionamiento de la agenda politica

The agenda reflects activities starting within the first 100 days but provides no targets.