memo

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UK/ˈmɛməʊ̯/Canada, US/ˈmɛmoʊ̯/Australia/ˈmiːməʉ/Australia/ˈmeməʉ/

noun

A short note; a memorandum.

“I made sure to memo him about the client's complaints.”

CommonScrabble 8

Meanings

nounmemo (plural memos)

plural memos

  1. A short note; a memorandum.

    According to yet another leaked memo, Powell responded the next day. Powell's leaked memo conceded that al Qaeda were not POWs, and that the Taliban individually or as a group might also lose their entitlement to that status.

    2007, John Yoo, War by Other Means […] , Atlantic Monthly Press, →ISBN, page 42
  2. computingA record of partial results that can be reused later without recomputation.

    The first is that the recursive call finds its subproblem solution in the memo and returns immediately.

    2020, Daniel Zingaro, Algorithmic Thinking: A Problem-Based Introduction, No Starch Press, →ISBN, page 86
verbmemo (third-person singular simple present memos, present participle memoing, simple past and past participle memoed)

present singular third person memos · participle present memoing · participle past memoed · past memoed

  1. informalTo record something; to make a note of something.
  2. informalTo send someone a note about something, for the record.

    I made sure to memo him about the client's complaints.

Synonyms & antonyms

nouna written proposal or reminder

Broader

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

Translations

Chinese Mandarin 備忘錄 /备忘录, 便箋 /便笺
  • 備忘錄 /备忘录 (bèiwànglù)a short note
  • 便箋 /便笺 (biànjiān)a short note
  • 字條 /字条 (zìtiáo)a short note
Estonian meelespea
  • meelespeaa short note
Finnish muistio
  • muistioa short note
French note, memorandum
  • notea short note
  • memoranduma short note
German Memo, Notiz
  • Memoa short note
  • Notiza short note
  • Zettela short note
Japanese メモ
  • メモ (memo)a short note
Korean 메모
  • 메모 (memo)a short note
Polish notatka, zapisek
  • notatkaa short note
  • zapiseka short note
Portuguese nota
  • notaa short note
Russian запи́ска, па́мятка
  • запи́ска (zapíska)a short note
  • па́мятка (pámjatka)a short note
  • мемора́ндум (memorándum)a short note
  • служе́бная запи́ска (služébnaja zapíska)a short note
Scottish Gaelic cuimhneachan
  • cuimhneachana short note
Spanish memo
  • memoa short note
Swedish pm
  • pma short note
Turkish kısa not
  • kısa nota short note
Ukrainian запи́ска, циду́ла
  • запи́ска (zapýska)a short note
  • циду́ла (cydúla)a short note
  • мемора́ндум (memorándum)a short note

Rhymes & wordplay

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Cite this entry
APA

memo. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/memo

MLA

“memo.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/memo. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “memo,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/memo.

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