nonscheduled
Americanadjective
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not scheduled; not entered on or having a schedule; unscheduled.
nonscheduled activities.
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(of an airline) authorized to carry passengers or freight between specified points as demand warrants, rather than on a regular schedule.
adjective
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not according to a schedule or plan; unscheduled
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(of an airline) operating without published flight schedules
Etymology
Origin of nonscheduled
1945–50, non- + scheduled ( def. )
Example Sentences
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The airport in Victorville is a public-use airport where charter airlines can operate nonscheduled private flights.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 19, 2025
One student in a program I led spent almost all her nonscheduled hours pounding the pavement of Southeast Asia haggling over $2 T-shirts and trinkets.
From New York Times • Apr. 8, 2016
Students in such relationships spend much of their nonscheduled hours otherwise engaged, with intermittent treks to the door to pick up pizzas from Domino’s, which now has locations in more than 75 countries.
From New York Times • Apr. 8, 2016
Finally, the slow winding down of the Viet Nam War rapidly chopped into the business of the nonscheduled airlines: Overseas National, World, Saturn and others.
From Time Magazine Archive
The entire scheduled industry rose up angrily when nonscheduled airlines first tried cut-rate flights, argued that there was only so much business, that rates had to be kept high to provide efficient service.
From Time Magazine Archive
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