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Schedule

Meaning in office & administration, with examples

/ˈʃedjuːl/verbCore term

In office & administration, schedule means: To arrange for a meeting, call or task to happen at a particular date and time, and usually to add it to a calendar.

In Turkish: planlamak, ayarlamak, programlamak

How it is used

Used constantly in admin work: schedule a meeting, a call or a delivery. Often passive: "The meeting is scheduled for 10 a.m." The noun a schedule is a plan of times and events; "behind schedule" means late and "ahead of schedule" means early.

Example sentences

  1. Can you schedule a call with the Berlin office for Tuesday afternoon?

  2. The interviews are scheduled for next Monday, starting at nine.

Common collocations

  • schedule a meeting
  • schedule a call
  • be scheduled for
  • tight schedule
  • behind schedule
  • calendarA record of a person's or team's meetings, appointments and events, usually kept in software that colleagues can see and add meetings to.
  • appointmentAn arranged time to meet someone or visit a place, for example to see a client, a doctor or a manager.
  • rescheduleTo change the date or time of a planned meeting, appointment or event to a new one.
  • availabilityThe times when a person is free to meet or work, or the fact that a room, product or service can still be used or booked.
  • bookTo arrange and reserve something in advance, such as a meeting room, a flight, a hotel room, a table or a person's time.

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