slated

American  

[slay-tid] / ˈsleɪ tɪd /

adjective

1. nominated or appointed.

   The rabbi spoke out against the slated all-male committee for appointing rabbinic judges, calling it a further exclusion of women from public space.

2. planned or scheduled.

   After a long work week, a night of entertainment and dining are among the slated activities for the weekend.

3. covered with or as with slate.

   The walls of the family home crumble quietly under the weight of the slated roof that occasionally shakes loose and falls in pieces to the ground.

4. harshly or severely criticized.

   Poor design is possibly one of the most slated aspects of this entire toy franchise.

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verb

1. the simple past tense and past participle of slate.

Etymology

Origin of slated

slate ¹ ( def. ) + -ed ² ( def. )

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

slated

The movie is slated to hit theaters on Feb. 18, 2028.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

Controllers, members of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association, were slated to get a pay raise of 3.8% under a law that authorized the bump.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

The government touts the initiative as a significant "investment in Rwanda's future", slated for sometime in the early 2030s.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

Its launch, initially slated for 2014, had been indefinitely postponed after North Korea halted construction of its roads and customs facilities, as relations with Beijing turned frosty.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

In 1931 Berkeley president Robert Sproul gave Lawrence this ramshackle campus building, slated for demolition, to house the new 27-inch cyclotron.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

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