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What's the difference between "program" and "agenda" when they are used to

 
 
Reply Thu 15 Oct, 2015 02:09 am
What's the difference between "program" and "agenda" when they are used in a to-do list?
eg. Program
Sunday, 1 October
10;45 Leave London Heathrow Airport by car
11;00 Ariive at the Cabinet Office
or
Agenda
Friday, June 25
Afternoon U.S. delegation arrives Beijing
Evening Free
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Reply Thu 15 Oct, 2015 03:34 am
Agenda is usually used in the sense of items to be discussed or matters to be resolved in a meeting. It also has the meaning of goals, such as the goals someone has for a meeting or a process. This is where the locution "hidden agenda" comes from--a set of goals which one or more persons have which they have not revealed. I think it is highly unlikely that a native-speaker of English would use agenda as you have used it in your second example. Arriving in Beijing is a function of the airline which takes you there, and evening free is a description of your activity (or lack of activity) and not something to accomplish.
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