memo

Clipping of memorandum.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈmɛməʊ̯/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈmɛmoʊ̯/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈmiːməʉ/, /ˈmeməʉ/
• Rhymes: -ɛməʊ, -iːməʊ

memo (plural memos)

1. A short note; a memorandum.
   • 2007, John Yoo, War by Other Means […] , Atlantic Monthly Press, →ISBN, page 42:

     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.

2. (programming) A record of partial results that can be reused later without recomputation.
   • 2020, Daniel Zingaro, Algorithmic Thinking: A Problem-Based Introduction, No Starch Press, →ISBN, page 86:

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

memo (third-person singular simple present memos, present participle memoing, simple past and past participle memoed)

1. (informal) To record something; to make a note of something.
2. (informal) To send someone a note about something, for the record.

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

• EMOM, mome

From English memo.

memo

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) memo (short note) (Classifier: 張／张 c)

Borrowed from English memo. Equivalent to a shortening of memorandum.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmeː.moː/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: me‧mo

memo n or m (plural memo's, no diminutive)

1. memo (reminder, short note)

memo

1. Rōmaji transcription of メモ

memo

1. eye dialect spelling of mesmo

• “memo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

• IPA^(key): /ˈmemo/ [ˈme.mo]
• Rhymes: -emo
• Syllabification: me‧mo

Onomatopoeic of stuttering.

memo m (plural memos)

1. idiot

memo (feminine mema, masculine plural memos, feminine plural memas)

1. silly, stupid

Clipping of memorando.

memo m (plural memos)

1. (chiefly Chile, Guatemala, Honduras) memorandum

• “memo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025