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sched

/skɛd͡ʒ/

sched is the clipping of schedule.

Meaning of schedule

Noun

schedule (plural schedules)

  1. A procedural plan, usually but not necessarily tabular in nature, indicating a sequence of operations and the planned times at which those operations are to occur.
    • Near-synonyms: timeline, timetable
    Synonyms:
    timeline, timetable
  2. A serial record of items, systematically arranged.
    • Near-synonyms: catalog, inventory, list, listing, register, registry, table
  3. A written or printed table of information, often forming an annex or appendix to a statute or other regulatory instrument, or to a legal contract.
    • schedule of tribes
    1. (US, capitalized, often) One of the five divisions into which controlled substances are classified, or the restrictions denoted by such classification.
      • Heroin is a Schedule I drug with a high potential for abuse.
    2. (Australia) One of the nine schedules of the Standard for the Uniform Scheduling of Medicines and Poisons. Identical to the American usage above.
  4. An allocation or ordering of a set of tasks on one or several resources.

See all 12 meanings of schedule

Forms of sched

pluralscheds
alternative formsched.

Words that rhyme with sched

9 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about sched

What is sched the clipping of?
Sched is the clipping of schedule.
How do you pronounce sched?
Sched is pronounced /skɛd͡ʒ/.

Words near sched in the dictionary

  1. Schechter
  2. Schechterle
  3. Schechters
  4. Schecter
  5. Schecters
  6. sched
  7. sched.
  8. Schedar
  9. schede
  10. Schedel
  11. schedes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sched (page history and authors); schedule (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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