schedule
IPA: skˈɛdʒʊɫ
noun
- (obsolete) A slip of paper; a short note.
- (law) A written or printed table of information, often forming an annex or appendix to a statute or other regulatory instrument, or to a legal contract.
- (US, law, often capitalized) One of the five divisions into which controlled substances are classified, or the restrictions denoted by such classification.
- (Australia, law, medicine) One of the nine schedules of the Standard for the Uniform Scheduling of Medicines and Poisons. Identical to the American usage above.
- A serial record of items, systematically arranged.
- A procedural plan, usually but not necessarily tabular in nature, indicating a sequence of operations and the planned times at which those operations are to occur.
- (computer science) An allocation or ordering of a set of tasks on one or several resources.
- (law, formal) Alternative letter-case form of schedule, commonly used in legislation and legal documents. [(obsolete) A slip of paper; a short note.]
verb
- To create a time-schedule.
- To plan an activity at a specific date or time in the future.
- To add a name to the list of people who are participating in something.
- (Australia, medicine) To admit (a person) to hospital as an involuntary patient under a schedule of the applicable mental health law.
- (US) To classify as a controlled substance.
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Examples of "schedule" in Sentences
- The schedule was constraint.
- 2013 schedule continues to mystify.
- The activity was confined to schedule.
- The publishing schedule was bimonthly.
- The schedule was meticulously planned.
- This is the motto of the day and the schedule.
- It was then switched to a semiannual release schedule.
- The prorogation eliminated 22 sitting days from the parliamentary schedule.
- The clock strikes midnight, the hallowed date arrives and, once again, the apocalypse fails to turn up on schedule.
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