memorandum ˈmɛməˌrændəm noun
: a written proposal or reminder
The word memo,randum has appeared in 279 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on Dec. 7 in “A Mysterious Company Came to Town With a $165 Billion Idea” by David Segal. The article describes actions taken by Lanham Napier, an executive working on behalf of a data center venture called Project Jupiter:
During negotiations, which went on for months, Mr. Napier signed a memorandum of understanding with Governor Lujan Grisham to build a scaled-back, $5 billion version of what would become Project Jupiter.
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