scheduled
Britishadjective
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arranged or planned according to a programme, timetable, etc
a scheduled meeting
a change to the scheduled programmes on TV tonight
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(of an aircraft or a flight) part of a regular service, not specially chartered
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(of a building, place of historic interest, etc) entered on a list of places to be preserved See also listed building
Explanation
Scheduled means that something is planned for a specific date and time. If a plane is scheduled to depart at 9 a.m. and it's still sitting on the tarmac at 2 p.m., the passengers may become irate. You may write a scheduled event down in your daily calendar so you won't forget it — like the meeting you've scheduled with your boss, which you'd better not miss. Airplanes, buses, and trains all have scheduled departure and arrival times, although they may not always leave or arrive on schedule — in other words, they may be delayed. Movies are notorious for starting long after their scheduled times.
Vocabulary lists containing scheduled
Example Sentences
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The mosaic and the surrounding Roman villa have since been granted Scheduled Monument status because of their national significance.
From Science Daily • Feb. 13, 2026
Scheduled payments to farmers have been delayed by an ongoing investigation into fraudulent EU subsidy claims worth millions of euros, revealed in May by the European Public Prosecutor's Office.
From Barron's • Feb. 13, 2026
Mr Rangarajan said: "Scheduled elections should as a rule go ahead as planned, and only be postponed in exceptional circumstances."
From BBC • Dec. 19, 2025
Scheduled official data include September durable goods orders on Monday; third-quarter GDP data and weekly jobless claims Thursday; and September PCE inflation figures Friday.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 24, 2025
Scheduled flights were delayed by hours, security took an unprecedented length of time, the flight itself was terrifying, but on Saturday morning when Aimee woke up, her mother was standing in her bedroom doorway.
From "Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story" by Nora Raleigh Baskin
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