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schedule
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As a noun, schedule means 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. As a verb, it means create a time-schedule.
Meanings of schedule
13 meaningsnoun
legalA written or printed table of information, often forming an annex or appendix to a statute or other regulatory instrument, or to a legal contract.
“schedule of tribes”
USlawoften capitalizedOne of the five divisions into which controlled substances are classified, or the restrictions denoted by such classification.
“a Schedule I drug with a high potential for abuse”
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.
“stick to the schedule”
“we're running behind schedule”
computer scienceAn allocation or ordering of a set of tasks on one or several resources.
Older and rare meanings (1)
obsoleteA 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.
“I'll schedule you for three-o'clock then.”
“The next elections are scheduled on the twentieth of November.”
To add a name to the list of people who are participating in something.
“I am scheduled for classes next month.”
AustraliamedicineTo admit (a person) to hospital as an involuntary patient under a schedule of the applicable mental health law.
“whether or not to schedule a patient”
USTo classify as a controlled substance.
Make a schedule; plan the time and place for events
“I scheduled an exam for this afternoon”
Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).