ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Scheduling

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech verb

Quick meaning: Scheduling is a verb meaning present participle and gerund of schedule.

Meaning

present participle and gerund of schedule.

More Meanings

  1. (countable) The time at which a particular event is scheduled.
  2. (countable) Assignment to a schedule, or systematic arrangement.
  3. (uncountable) A function in many aspects of industry, commerce and computing in which events are timed to take place at the most opportune time.

Example Sentences

The use of modified unit-dose rather than eight separate pharmacies with an individual prescription system could have prevented virtually all of these inappropriate schedulings of drugs.

Word Forms

Synonyms for scheduling

Depending on context, synonyms include programming.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include programming, timetable, agenda, listing, program, programmability.

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