scheduling

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Verb

scheduling

  1. present participle and gerund of schedule

Noun

scheduling (countable and uncountable, plural schedulings)

  1. (uncountable) A function in many aspects of industry, commerce and computing in which events are timed to take place at the most opportune time.
  2. (countable) The time at which a particular event is scheduled.
  3. (countable) Assignment to a schedule, or systematic arrangement.
    • 1991, James W. Cooper, Drug-Related Problems in Geriatric Nursing Home Patients, page 111:
      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.

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