scheduled

Pluralscheduleds

1. 1
   adjective

   Planned to take place at a set time, in keeping with a timetable or arrangement.

   The scheduled maintenance will close the bridge for two days.

   Her scheduled appearance was canceled at the last minute.

   Similarplanned, arranged, fixed, timetabled, appointed

   Oppositeunscheduled, unplanned, impromptu, unexpected

2. 2
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of schedule.

   The committee scheduled the vote for early March.

   The surgery was scheduled weeks in advance.

   Note

   One spelling does the work of both past forms: the committee scheduled the vote; the vote was scheduled, or has been scheduled. In the passive it shades easily into the "planned" adjective. It also carries the verb's specialist uses. In the US a drug is scheduled when it is classified as a controlled substance, and in Australia a patient is scheduled when admitted involuntarily under mental health law.

3. 3
   adjectiveIndia

   Listed in a Schedule of the Indian Constitution and thereby recognized by the government as eligible for special protection, consideration, and concessions.

   The ministry released new funds for scheduled communities this year.

   Candidates from scheduled groups are entitled to reserved seats in the legislature.

   Note

   Indian constitutional and administrative English, where the adjective usually travels with its noun: scheduled caste, scheduled tribe, scheduled language. A group so described appears in one of the Schedules of the Constitution, and the label carries legal weight: protections, consideration and concessions follow from it. Without that noun beside it, a reader outside India would simply hear "planned", so keep the pairing explicit.

4. 4
   nouncolloquialcountable

   A person who has been booked or assigned to an appointment, event, or procedure.

   Each scheduled received a text reminder the night before.

   The volunteer guided the next scheduled toward the waiting area.

   Similarschedulee

   Note

   A clipped noun made by dropping whatever the adjective described, and it is most at home in the plural. Aviation talk sets the scheduleds against the non-scheduleds, as a 1980 US House Committee on Public Works and Transportation hearing does over curfews. The Economic and Political Weekly (1997) writes of "backwards and scheduleds", borrowing from the constitutional adjective. Keep it informal, and let context supply the missing noun.

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