Memorandum Meaning

/ˌmɛm.əˈɹæn.dəm/
C1

Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

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nounA short note serving as a reminder.

nounA written business communication.

I haven't yet read the new memorandum on internal security.
This memorandum shall be published in the Federal Register.
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The official document sent within a company to announce a new rule is called a ____.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The two countries signed a ____ of understanding to cooperate on several new environmental projects.

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

"....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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CEFR Practice Quiz
The official document sent within a company to announce a new rule is called a ____.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The two countries signed a ____ of understanding to cooperate on several new environmental projects.

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