slotting

1. 1
   noununcountable

   The act of assigning something to a particular position, time, or place reserved for it.

   The slotting of delivery trucks into tight dock schedules requires careful planning.

   Warehouse managers optimize the slotting of inventory to shorten how far workers walk.

   Similarscheduling, allocation, placement, assignment, positioning

2. 2
   verb

   Present participle of slot.

   The editor is slotting the new article into tomorrow's edition.

   Workers are slotting fresh panels into the gaps along the wall.

   Note

   The -ing form carries every meaning of the verb with it: dropping a coin into an aperture, fitting someone into a schedule, cutting a groove in metal, and even a British and Rhodesian slang use meaning "to kill." After be it builds progressives (is slotting the article in), and on its own it works as a gerund. Once it takes a plural, as slottings, it has become the noun for allocation.

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