schedule

1. 1.

   plan for an activity or event

   “I've scheduled a concert next week”

   Broaderplan

   Narrowertimebookcalendarslot
2. 2.

   make a schedule; plan the time and place for events

   “I scheduled an exam for this afternoon”

   Broaderplan

   Narrowerprogramreschedule

Other forms of schedule

plural

schedules·

past tense

scheduled·

present participle

scheduling·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about schedule

What does schedule mean?

schedule means "a temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in schedule?

schedule has 2 syllables: schedul-e. The stress falls on "schedul". In IPA it is /ˈskɛdʒʊl/.

What is another word for schedule?

Close synonyms include agenda, docket. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is schedule a common word?

schedule is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.