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noun

scheduling

setting an order and time for planned events

In a sentence

Six example sentences with scheduling, each labelled with its topic.

  • Careless scheduling left us with a twenty-minute connection in Frankfurt and a nine-hour wait in Lisbon.

    Travel

  • The festival's scheduling put both headliners on at nine, forcing the crowd to choose between two stages.

    Music

  • Better scheduling cut waiting times in half, simply by spacing appointments so that no clinic ran three hours behind.

    Medicine

  • The operating system's scheduling gives each program a slice of processor time, so the music never stutters while files copy.

    Technology

  • Poor scheduling gave the team four road games in six nights, and the coach blamed it for both losses.

    Basketball

  • Smart scheduling of the delivery vans cut fuel costs by a tenth, simply by grouping stops on the same street.

    Business

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