Meanings
plural memorandums for the record · plural memoranda for the record
- A US military document meant to act as an internal, formal record of a verbally or informally delivered communication.
Colonel [Rufus S.] Bratton. […] He asked me to go over it with him and make such corrections as were necessary, so that it would be a memorandum for the record, of our recollection of what took place in General [George C.] Marshall's office that morning.
1946, “Testimony of Rufus S. Bratton”, in Proceedings of Army Pearl Harbor Board (Hearings Before the Joint Committee on the Investigation of the Pearl Harbor Attack), volume 29, Washington, DC: United States Government Printing Office, page 2347Synonyms: memorandum for record, memo for the record, memo for record, MFR, MR
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA US military document meant to act as an internal, formal record of a verbally or informally delivered communication.
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