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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 meanings

noun

  1. 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”

  2. 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”

  3. A serial record of items, systematically arranged.

  4. 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”

  5. computer scienceAn allocation or ordering of a set of tasks on one or several resources.

  6. A temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to

    Similar: agenda, docket
Older and rare meanings (1)
  1. obsoleteA slip of paper; a short note.

verb

  1. To create a time-schedule.

  2. 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.”

  3. To add a name to the list of people who are participating in something.

    “I am scheduled for classes next month.”

  4. 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”

  5. USTo classify as a controlled substance.

  6. 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).

schedule around the world

USOne of the five divisions into which controlled substances are classified, or the restrictions denoted by such classification.
AustraliaTo admit (a person) to hospital as an involuntary patient under a schedule of the applicable mental health law.
USTo classify as a controlled substance.

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noun: a temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to

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