to-do list

• Audio (US):

  (file)

to‐do list (plural to-do lists)

1. A list of errands and other tasks – often written on a piece of paper as a memory aid – that one needs or intends to accomplish.

   Synonyms: agenda, tasklist, worklist

   Hyponyms: (types) honey do list, punch list, snagging list; (priority levels) hotlist, warmlist; shortlist, longlist

   Mowing the lawn and chopping the weeds topped his to-do list of chores.

   • 2007 September 14, Jill P. Capuzzo, “Between Film Sets, Life on Gossamer Lake”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     Back in his workshop in the barn, Mr. Scheel refined his to-do list: In addition to putting in the slide, he could cross off restoning the quarter-mile driveway, repairing the windmill-powered watering system and building an arbor gate for the vegetable garden .

   • 2012 July 7, Guy Srinivasan, “Wireheading Steelman”, in lw-seattle‎^[2] (Usenet):

     I want to make that strawman into a steelman, but I eliminated "the pursuit of happiness" from my to-do list so many years ago that I don't even know where I'd begin.

   • 2024 June 12, Philip Haigh, “Rail reform is the first big test for incoming rail ministers”, in RAIL, number 1011, page 38:

     Meanwhile, the Transport Select Committee published its final report on May 28, suggesting that the next government would "inherit an already long to-do list" - headed by rail reform, but also including clarity around future rail infrastructure investment.

• → Dutch: to-dolijst (partial calque)
• → Dutch: tedoenlijst (calque)

• inbox