memorandum

CEFRC1

/ˌmɛm.əˈɹæn.dəm/

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A written business communication.
A short note serving as a reminder.
A page in an annual publication honoring the memory of a person who died during the past year.

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....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.
1821, Thomas De Quincey, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
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.
2025 July 28, Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, “Trump administration allows federal workers to promote religious beliefs”, in CNN

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