Definition of schedule in English:

schedule

noun ˈʃɛdjuːlˈskɛdjuːlˈskɛdʒəl

1A plan for carrying out a process or procedure, giving lists of intended events and times.
计划（表）；进度表
we have drawn up an engineering schedule
我们已经拟定了工程进度表。
Example sentencesExamples
- His demanding training schedules have improved his performances but have also come under criticism.
- Control is about monitoring, comparing results, revising the schedule, and the plan, taking corrective action, and deferred gratification.
- A schedule of events marking the program's 10th anniversary can be found online.
- Japanese development schedules show that the process takes a maximum of 12 months and is typically much shorter.
- They had monitored the locations for the first three events on the schedule and the guest speaker had in fact appeared exactly when he was supposed to.
- The investment commitments of the concessionaires should be bound to a particular schedule for carrying out their contract, the auditors said.
- After this, further treatment schedules can be planned.
- The demand for meat in the US forces the slaughterhouses to maintain rigorous production schedules.
- Companies get ordering and inventory data at the click of a mouse, so they can rapidly adjust production schedules.
- The engineer finally had to start over with an entirely new concept very late in the process, delaying the schedule for the whole project.
- As the Games developed, so did a set of procedures such as standardised schedule of events and the practice of the Olympic Truce.
- The Festival will be wrapped up on Monday but not before a fun-filled schedule of events are enjoyed by the townsfolk.
- Project schedules, plans and budgets are important, but without quality ideas, great design is impossible.
- Most of the nationalised and private banks today offer flexible repayment schedules for purchase of pre-owned cars.
- The competition schedule includes 28 Olympic sports that will be held at 37 venues.
- She admitted there were some difficulties with the number of trainers available to carry out training schedules.
- Last season there were 35 events on the schedule and Palmer feels that such a number is far too much.
- First, we planned our production schedule in great detail, with aggressive but realistic goals.
- They came up with a schedule, plan and fiscal philosophy that secured $50,000 in funding from the Council.
- The Supporters' Trust is to draw up a fund-raising schedule with several events planned for the close season.
Synonyms
plan, programme, timetable, scheme
1. 1.1usually one's schedule One's day-to-day plans or timetable.
  日程安排（表）
  take a moment out of your busy schedule
  从你繁忙的日程安排中抽出片刻时间。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Yesterday, Delaney was trying to rearrange his schedule in order to come.
  As I am a bachelor living in a condo with a fairly busy schedule, I vacuumed much more often with this thing than with a traditional upright.
  I sighed knowing the hectic schedule I'd just gotten myself into.
  Amidst this busy schedule, she says that she gets enough time with her family.
  Jarrett kept up this busy schedule until he was forced to enter the hospital.
  We are separated by the geographical distance between us, as well as our very busy, hectic schedules.
  Family schedules do not allow for uniform activities.
  Even though summer vacations are the only free time that a student gets in an otherwise busy schedule, it must be utilised to the maximum extent.
  Maybe you'll let me take you to lunch, if your schedule permits.
  They also provide Express Lunch, a 45-minute three-course set lunch menu which is specially designed to suit guests with a busy schedule.
  We continued to see each other at first every weekend, then it became every other weekend, then it became every 2 weeks depending on his busy work schedule!
  He arrived over the Christmas break after a unique situation freed him up from his usually busy schedule.
  This is a sampling of her weekly schedule: Monday: swimming at 5 a.m., school, singing classes in the afternoon.
  Also, when our schedules allow we like to tour as much as possible.
  Make time to talk with your child to counteract a hectic, busy family schedule.
  It fits easily around one's schedule, and allows the least stealthy among us to enjoy the chase.
  He might come home for a birthday or stop by when his schedule allowed it.
  Johnny raised his eyebrows and shrugged, ‘I suppose I could fit you into my extremely busy schedule.’
  He congratulated her on her appointment as Minister for Agriculture and thanked her for taking time out of her very busy schedule to come to talk to the meeting.
  Despite his rather busy schedule, the flute maestro is in his own words at peace with himself.
  Synonyms
  timetable, agenda, diary, calendar, appointment book, list of appointments, social calendar
2. 1.2 A timetable.
  时刻表
  information on airline schedules
  航班时刻表信息。
  Example sentencesExamples
  What a shame there won't be room for it in this years' packed TV schedules.
  For that matter even the train and airline schedules are now just a click away.
  While we observed religiously the timetable of the television schedules, she operated by New York time.
  Yesterday Continental Airlines cut flight schedules by a fifth and gave 12,000 staff a leave of absence.
  The BA source said the cumulative delays could play havoc with the airline's schedules.
  This year, however, students across the southeast will return the same day as divisions move toward coordinated calendars and busing schedules.
  The airline's schedules were not affected by the stoppage.
  Woods says she checked online flight schedules and flight times between some of the cities.
  At current rates of expansion, a huge proportion of British television schedules will be taken up with such drivel.
  Officials urged passengers to check with airlines on flight schedules and available service, and allow ample time to deal with new security procedures.
  Thai Airways International Plc will rearrange its flight schedules on some European routes during the low season.
  We had a successful broadcast in Carlow during Easter week 2005 and are presently planning our broadcasting schedule for the coming year.
  Airlines are curtailing flight schedules and laying off staff while the planes are travelling at about half capacity.
  The bus company has committed itself to always adhere to the schedule and the timetable.
  Hoteliers, however, have seen some cancellations and flight schedules have been disrupted.
  The 1930s had seen a rapid development in radio navigational techniques, spurred by the need for airlines to maintain schedules despite changeable weather.
  While the network is years away from establishing a primetime schedule complete with its own brand of original programming, PAX is making inroads.
  Go to the MTA Web site for maps and information on fares and schedules.
  I have a good friend who knows just about everything having to do with airlines and flight schedules.
  Imported series have been a major part of British television schedules for nearly half a century.
  Synonyms
  list, catalogue, inventory
  syllabus
2Law
An appendix to a formal document or statute, especially as a list, table, or inventory.
〔主律〕附件（尤指表格、单据等）
they need a clear schedule of fixtures and fittings
Example sentencesExamples
- The documents we have just been looking at are schedules to the partnership agreement, as, indeed, is the application form, which your Honours will find at 843.
- As the asset schedule makes clear, the financial resources are substantial and liquid.
- They would not, because there are statutory limits under the schedule to that Act.
- Clause 26 of the contract between those parties was deemed time to be of the essence, and by Item L of the schedule, encumbrances were listed as nil.
- The owner of such design rights is the person identified in the 2nd column in the table of the said schedule.
3(with reference to the British system of income tax) any of the forms (named ‘A’, ‘B’, etc.) issued for completion and relating to the various classes into which taxable income is divided.
（英国所得税制的）报税单
Example sentencesExamples
- The IRS and the Department of the Treasury have announced an increase in the threshold for filing a separate schedule for interest or dividend income.

verb ˈʃɛdjuːlˈskɛdjuːlˈskɛdʒəl

[with object]

1Arrange or plan (an event) to take place at a particular time.
将…列入计划表（或时间表等）
the release of the single is scheduled for April
计划4月出单曲唱片。
Example sentencesExamples
- The eagerly awaited National Culchie Festival is scheduled for Lisselton at the end of October.
- Those meetings are tentatively scheduled for the end of June 2004 and include meetings in the San Francisco Bay Area.
- The next council meeting is scheduled for Jan. 13.
- The fair opens at 10 am with the classic cars arriving at around 11.45 am and the Teddy Bear's Picnic is scheduled for 2pm.
- The mood in the trade has been downbeat in the recent past, which is why producers and distributors are nervous about scheduling the release dates of their films.
- The next annual Northern Economist Businesswomen Conference is scheduled for 12 and 13 August in Ongwediva.
- A press conference was scheduled for October 18 in Bangkok to officially announce the event on national broadcasts.
- He moved stiffly to the phone and scheduled a new photo appointment.
- All other events scheduled for tomorrow will go ahead as planned.
- Elections for the National Assembly were scheduled for April 2003, but later postponed until June and then October.
- Two years ago, the school scheduled home games at Everett Memorial Stadium.
- This year's Dartford Festival is scheduled for July 16 and 17.
- The first briefing is scheduled for Tuesday morning and, of course, CNN plans live coverage.
- We had scheduled Nicole's hair appointment for the following Saturday.
- As the Dec.1 World AIDS Day is approaching, a series of events have been scheduled for this month and next month.
- The Float Parade is scheduled to commence at 1 p.m. and the race will take place immediately after the parade at 3 p.m.
- The event was scheduled for last weekend but with only 20 ticket bookings the committee had no other option than cancelling.
- A large planning event is scheduled for the fall at Notre Dame, where the board hopes to hear reactions to the proposal.
- The following advanced learning and motivational events are scheduled for 2003.
- George says the event has been tentatively scheduled for Friday Februrary 6 and will be committee's final fundraising effort.
Synonyms
arrange, organize, plan, programme, timetable, fix a time for, make arrangements for, book, set up, line up, slot in, time
North American slate
1. 1.1 Make arrangements for (someone or something) to do something.
  安排；排定
  with object and infinitive he is scheduled to be released from prison this spring
  他将被安排今年春天出狱。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The government is scheduled on Monday to determine the action necessary to end the prolonged conflict in Aceh.
  Originally Miramax scheduled the film for release in late 2001, but after September 11 it was shelved indefinitely.
  Group of Seven finance ministers are scheduled to meet in Washington on that Friday.
  The system was originally scheduled to be launched on May 1.
  Chertoff's Senate confirmation hearing is scheduled to begin Wednesday.
  The government and the legislators are also scheduled to approve the selection of the senior deputy governor for the Central Bank.
  The book is scheduled to be released in 2003 and Dunphy is anxious that none of the material becomes public knowledge before then.
  The delegation is also scheduled to visit several U.S. military bases.
  He frowned, struggling to remember the time that they were scheduled to arrive.
  He believed it was plot to tarnish the Jamaat's name because he was scheduled to appear on a radio talk show yesterday.
  An autopsy is scheduled to determine how the Salisbury girl died.
  A commission was scheduled to be appointed within 10 days of the end of the strike to investigate possible unwarranted dismissals since March 1.
  Arrive at the airport least two hours before your plane is scheduled to depart.
  AU is scheduled to release its first-half profits on July 22.
  About 30 people were scheduled to fly out of Geraldton this morning and about 80 tonight.
  The issue is scheduled to go before voters in February or March but nobody is betting too much on it going ahead.
  Half of the 30 companies in the blue-chip Dow Jones industrial average are scheduled to release results.
  Now, the comedy flick is scheduled to be released in February of 2006.
  The extradition hearing is now scheduled to begin in London in January.
  Virtually all the tax cuts passed in the President's first term are scheduled to terminate on specific dates clustered around 2010.
2British Include (a building or site) in a list for legal preservation or protection.
〈英〉把（建筑物）列为文物保护单位
Cowley Bridge has already been scheduled and protected as an ancient monument

Phrases

ahead of (or behind) schedule

Earlier (or later) than planned or expected.
按预定计划
work finished an astonishing twelve days ahead of schedule
I'm behind schedule as it is
Example sentencesExamples
- Almost half of the children's centres planned for Bradford will be built behind schedule, it has been revealed.
- Work is reportedly ahead of schedule and all the brand new homes are expected to be completed by 2005.
- The plans to link our cities with motorways are behind schedule.
- I am terribly behind schedule - I plan to finish my report during this week.
- The flight to Chongqing took off four hours behind schedule.
- Net debt at the year end is expected to be reduced ahead of schedule, at approximately €465 million.
- I'm a month ahead of schedule so I plan to go back up to seventeen and then take it down again.
- That ambitious project has slipped behind schedule.
- The remaining two levels of the parking garage are expected to open ahead of schedule later this month.
- Earlier this month it was revealed that some elements of the plan are running over budget and at least seven years behind schedule.
Synonyms
late, running late, overdue, behind time, not on time, behind, behindhand, behind target

to (or on or according to) schedule

On time; as planned or expected.
按预定计划
the filming was still on schedule
Example sentencesExamples
- His plans apparently proceeded according to schedule.
- The overall plans for the visit of the African guests are well on schedule.
- We expect to deliver further releases to schedule next year.
- Building at the Polebarn Road site is on schedule, with engineers expecting to be finished by mid-summer.
- The holding pond must be emptied on schedule as specified in a waste management plan.
- It was decided to hold annual Christmas party on Sunday, December 11th, provided the proposed plans go according to schedule.
- If their plans were going according to schedule, we'd be in Syria right now.
- But a spokesman said engineers were confident that it would begin before the end of May, and would run to schedule.
- The barracks are expected to be completed on schedule next month and to come in on budget.
- Buses are more frequent and are running to schedule, prompting Londoners to take to them in droves.
Synonyms
early enough, in good time, punctually, promptly, on time, not too late, with time to spare, at the appointed time, at the right time, on schedule
punctual, punctually, prompt, promptly, in time, in good time, on schedule, to schedule, when expected, timely, well timed

Derivatives

schedular

adjective

A transfer of assessing powers would bring railway companies within their more accommodating policies without disturbing the general schedular framework.

Origin

Late Middle English (in the sense 'scroll, explanatory note, appendix'): from Old French cedule, from late Latin schedula 'slip of paper', diminutive of scheda, from Greek skhedē 'papyrus leaf'. The verb dates from the mid 19th century.

An early schedule was a ‘scroll, explanatory note, appendix’. It comes via Old French from late Latin schedula ‘slip of paper’ from Greek skhedē ‘papyrus leaf’. The sense ‘timetable’ is found from the mid 19th century in US usage. The British pronounce the word with an initial ‘sh’ sound but Americans with a ‘sk’. This prompted Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) to say to the British actor Herbert Marshal who had annoyed her by repeated references to his busy ‘shedule’ ‘I think you're full of skit’.

Definition of schedule in US English:

schedule

nounˈskejəlˈskɛdʒəl

1A plan for carrying out a process or procedure, giving lists of intended events and times.
计划（表）；进度表
we have drawn up an engineering schedule
我们已经拟定了工程进度表。
Example sentencesExamples
- The investment commitments of the concessionaires should be bound to a particular schedule for carrying out their contract, the auditors said.
- First, we planned our production schedule in great detail, with aggressive but realistic goals.
- The competition schedule includes 28 Olympic sports that will be held at 37 venues.
- The demand for meat in the US forces the slaughterhouses to maintain rigorous production schedules.
- His demanding training schedules have improved his performances but have also come under criticism.
- Last season there were 35 events on the schedule and Palmer feels that such a number is far too much.
- The Supporters' Trust is to draw up a fund-raising schedule with several events planned for the close season.
- They came up with a schedule, plan and fiscal philosophy that secured $50,000 in funding from the Council.
- Companies get ordering and inventory data at the click of a mouse, so they can rapidly adjust production schedules.
- As the Games developed, so did a set of procedures such as standardised schedule of events and the practice of the Olympic Truce.
- After this, further treatment schedules can be planned.
- The engineer finally had to start over with an entirely new concept very late in the process, delaying the schedule for the whole project.
- A schedule of events marking the program's 10th anniversary can be found online.
- Control is about monitoring, comparing results, revising the schedule, and the plan, taking corrective action, and deferred gratification.
- Project schedules, plans and budgets are important, but without quality ideas, great design is impossible.
- She admitted there were some difficulties with the number of trainers available to carry out training schedules.
- They had monitored the locations for the first three events on the schedule and the guest speaker had in fact appeared exactly when he was supposed to.
- The Festival will be wrapped up on Monday but not before a fun-filled schedule of events are enjoyed by the townsfolk.
- Japanese development schedules show that the process takes a maximum of 12 months and is typically much shorter.
- Most of the nationalised and private banks today offer flexible repayment schedules for purchase of pre-owned cars.
Synonyms
plan, programme, timetable, scheme
1. 1.1usually one's schedule One's day-to-day plans or timetable.
  日程安排（表）
  take a moment out of your busy schedule
  从你繁忙的日程安排中抽出片刻时间。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Yesterday, Delaney was trying to rearrange his schedule in order to come.
  They also provide Express Lunch, a 45-minute three-course set lunch menu which is specially designed to suit guests with a busy schedule.
  Jarrett kept up this busy schedule until he was forced to enter the hospital.
  Maybe you'll let me take you to lunch, if your schedule permits.
  Even though summer vacations are the only free time that a student gets in an otherwise busy schedule, it must be utilised to the maximum extent.
  Make time to talk with your child to counteract a hectic, busy family schedule.
  We continued to see each other at first every weekend, then it became every other weekend, then it became every 2 weeks depending on his busy work schedule!
  Amidst this busy schedule, she says that she gets enough time with her family.
  We are separated by the geographical distance between us, as well as our very busy, hectic schedules.
  He congratulated her on her appointment as Minister for Agriculture and thanked her for taking time out of her very busy schedule to come to talk to the meeting.
  As I am a bachelor living in a condo with a fairly busy schedule, I vacuumed much more often with this thing than with a traditional upright.
  He arrived over the Christmas break after a unique situation freed him up from his usually busy schedule.
  I sighed knowing the hectic schedule I'd just gotten myself into.
  Johnny raised his eyebrows and shrugged, ‘I suppose I could fit you into my extremely busy schedule.’
  This is a sampling of her weekly schedule: Monday: swimming at 5 a.m., school, singing classes in the afternoon.
  It fits easily around one's schedule, and allows the least stealthy among us to enjoy the chase.
  Family schedules do not allow for uniform activities.
  Despite his rather busy schedule, the flute maestro is in his own words at peace with himself.
  Also, when our schedules allow we like to tour as much as possible.
  He might come home for a birthday or stop by when his schedule allowed it.
  Synonyms
  timetable, agenda, diary, calendar, appointment book, list of appointments, social calendar
2. 1.2 A timetable.
  时刻表
  information on airline schedules
  航班时刻表信息。
  Example sentencesExamples
  What a shame there won't be room for it in this years' packed TV schedules.
  I have a good friend who knows just about everything having to do with airlines and flight schedules.
  This year, however, students across the southeast will return the same day as divisions move toward coordinated calendars and busing schedules.
  While the network is years away from establishing a primetime schedule complete with its own brand of original programming, PAX is making inroads.
  Woods says she checked online flight schedules and flight times between some of the cities.
  The airline's schedules were not affected by the stoppage.
  The 1930s had seen a rapid development in radio navigational techniques, spurred by the need for airlines to maintain schedules despite changeable weather.
  The BA source said the cumulative delays could play havoc with the airline's schedules.
  Thai Airways International Plc will rearrange its flight schedules on some European routes during the low season.
  The bus company has committed itself to always adhere to the schedule and the timetable.
  While we observed religiously the timetable of the television schedules, she operated by New York time.
  Airlines are curtailing flight schedules and laying off staff while the planes are travelling at about half capacity.
  We had a successful broadcast in Carlow during Easter week 2005 and are presently planning our broadcasting schedule for the coming year.
  For that matter even the train and airline schedules are now just a click away.
  Imported series have been a major part of British television schedules for nearly half a century.
  Hoteliers, however, have seen some cancellations and flight schedules have been disrupted.
  Yesterday Continental Airlines cut flight schedules by a fifth and gave 12,000 staff a leave of absence.
  At current rates of expansion, a huge proportion of British television schedules will be taken up with such drivel.
  Go to the MTA Web site for maps and information on fares and schedules.
  Officials urged passengers to check with airlines on flight schedules and available service, and allow ample time to deal with new security procedures.
  Synonyms
  timetable, agenda, diary, calendar, appointment book, list of appointments, social calendar
  list, catalogue, inventory
2Law
An appendix to a formal document or statute, especially as a list, table, or inventory.
〔主律〕附件（尤指表格、单据等）
Example sentencesExamples
- The owner of such design rights is the person identified in the 2nd column in the table of the said schedule.
- Clause 26 of the contract between those parties was deemed time to be of the essence, and by Item L of the schedule, encumbrances were listed as nil.
- The documents we have just been looking at are schedules to the partnership agreement, as, indeed, is the application form, which your Honours will find at 843.
- They would not, because there are statutory limits under the schedule to that Act.
- As the asset schedule makes clear, the financial resources are substantial and liquid.
3(with reference to an income tax system) any of the forms (named “A,” “B,” etc.) issued for completion and relating to the various classes into which taxable income is divided.
（英国所得税制的）报税单
Example sentencesExamples
- The IRS and the Department of the Treasury have announced an increase in the threshold for filing a separate schedule for interest or dividend income.

verbˈskejəlˈskɛdʒəl

[with object]

1Arrange or plan (an event) to take place at a particular time.
将…列入计划表（或时间表等）
the release of the single is scheduled for April
计划4月出单曲唱片。
Example sentencesExamples
- The next council meeting is scheduled for Jan. 13.
- This year's Dartford Festival is scheduled for July 16 and 17.
- A press conference was scheduled for October 18 in Bangkok to officially announce the event on national broadcasts.
- As the Dec.1 World AIDS Day is approaching, a series of events have been scheduled for this month and next month.
- Elections for the National Assembly were scheduled for April 2003, but later postponed until June and then October.
- The mood in the trade has been downbeat in the recent past, which is why producers and distributors are nervous about scheduling the release dates of their films.
- The Float Parade is scheduled to commence at 1 p.m. and the race will take place immediately after the parade at 3 p.m.
- The following advanced learning and motivational events are scheduled for 2003.
- He moved stiffly to the phone and scheduled a new photo appointment.
- George says the event has been tentatively scheduled for Friday Februrary 6 and will be committee's final fundraising effort.
- The eagerly awaited National Culchie Festival is scheduled for Lisselton at the end of October.
- The next annual Northern Economist Businesswomen Conference is scheduled for 12 and 13 August in Ongwediva.
- A large planning event is scheduled for the fall at Notre Dame, where the board hopes to hear reactions to the proposal.
- The fair opens at 10 am with the classic cars arriving at around 11.45 am and the Teddy Bear's Picnic is scheduled for 2pm.
- All other events scheduled for tomorrow will go ahead as planned.
- The event was scheduled for last weekend but with only 20 ticket bookings the committee had no other option than cancelling.
- We had scheduled Nicole's hair appointment for the following Saturday.
- Two years ago, the school scheduled home games at Everett Memorial Stadium.
- Those meetings are tentatively scheduled for the end of June 2004 and include meetings in the San Francisco Bay Area.
- The first briefing is scheduled for Tuesday morning and, of course, CNN plans live coverage.
Synonyms
arrange, organize, plan, programme, timetable, fix a time for, make arrangements for, book, set up, line up, slot in, time
1. 1.1 Make arrangements for (someone or something) to do something.
  安排；排定
  with object and infinitive he is scheduled to be released from prison this spring
  他将被安排今年春天出狱。
  Example sentencesExamples
  An autopsy is scheduled to determine how the Salisbury girl died.
  The system was originally scheduled to be launched on May 1.
  The issue is scheduled to go before voters in February or March but nobody is betting too much on it going ahead.
  The extradition hearing is now scheduled to begin in London in January.
  The government and the legislators are also scheduled to approve the selection of the senior deputy governor for the Central Bank.
  Virtually all the tax cuts passed in the President's first term are scheduled to terminate on specific dates clustered around 2010.
  A commission was scheduled to be appointed within 10 days of the end of the strike to investigate possible unwarranted dismissals since March 1.
  Now, the comedy flick is scheduled to be released in February of 2006.
  He frowned, struggling to remember the time that they were scheduled to arrive.
  The book is scheduled to be released in 2003 and Dunphy is anxious that none of the material becomes public knowledge before then.
  About 30 people were scheduled to fly out of Geraldton this morning and about 80 tonight.
  Group of Seven finance ministers are scheduled to meet in Washington on that Friday.
  Half of the 30 companies in the blue-chip Dow Jones industrial average are scheduled to release results.
  AU is scheduled to release its first-half profits on July 22.
  Arrive at the airport least two hours before your plane is scheduled to depart.
  Chertoff's Senate confirmation hearing is scheduled to begin Wednesday.
  The delegation is also scheduled to visit several U.S. military bases.
  The government is scheduled on Monday to determine the action necessary to end the prolonged conflict in Aceh.
  He believed it was plot to tarnish the Jamaat's name because he was scheduled to appear on a radio talk show yesterday.
  Originally Miramax scheduled the film for release in late 2001, but after September 11 it was shelved indefinitely.

Phrases

ahead of (or behind) schedule

Earlier (or later) than planned or expected.
按预定计划
Example sentencesExamples
- The remaining two levels of the parking garage are expected to open ahead of schedule later this month.
- The flight to Chongqing took off four hours behind schedule.
- The plans to link our cities with motorways are behind schedule.
- Almost half of the children's centres planned for Bradford will be built behind schedule, it has been revealed.
- I am terribly behind schedule - I plan to finish my report during this week.
- Net debt at the year end is expected to be reduced ahead of schedule, at approximately €465 million.
- Earlier this month it was revealed that some elements of the plan are running over budget and at least seven years behind schedule.
- I'm a month ahead of schedule so I plan to go back up to seventeen and then take it down again.
- That ambitious project has slipped behind schedule.
- Work is reportedly ahead of schedule and all the brand new homes are expected to be completed by 2005.
Synonyms
late, running late, overdue, behind time, not on time, behind, behindhand, behind target

on (or according to) schedule

On time; as planned or expected.
按预定计划
Example sentencesExamples
- The overall plans for the visit of the African guests are well on schedule.
- His plans apparently proceeded according to schedule.
- Buses are more frequent and are running to schedule, prompting Londoners to take to them in droves.
- It was decided to hold annual Christmas party on Sunday, December 11th, provided the proposed plans go according to schedule.
- The holding pond must be emptied on schedule as specified in a waste management plan.
- We expect to deliver further releases to schedule next year.
- But a spokesman said engineers were confident that it would begin before the end of May, and would run to schedule.
- If their plans were going according to schedule, we'd be in Syria right now.
- The barracks are expected to be completed on schedule next month and to come in on budget.
- Building at the Polebarn Road site is on schedule, with engineers expecting to be finished by mid-summer.
Synonyms
early enough, in good time, punctually, promptly, on time, not too late, with time to spare, at the appointed time, at the right time, on schedule
punctual, punctually, prompt, promptly, in time, in good time, on schedule, to schedule, when expected, timely, well timed

Origin

Late Middle English (in the sense ‘scroll, explanatory note, appendix’): from Old French cedule, from late Latin schedula ‘slip of paper’, diminutive of scheda, from Greek skhedē ‘papyrus leaf’. The verb dates from the mid 19th century.

词汇	schedule
释义	Definition of schedule in English: schedule noun ˈʃɛdjuːlˈskɛdjuːlˈskɛdʒəl 1A plan for carrying out a process or procedure, giving lists of intended events and times. 计划（表）；进度表 we have drawn up an engineering schedule 我们已经拟定了工程进度表。 Example sentencesExamples His demanding training schedules have improved his performances but have also come under criticism. Control is about monitoring, comparing results, revising the schedule, and the plan, taking corrective action, and deferred gratification. A schedule of events marking the program's 10th anniversary can be found online. Japanese development schedules show that the process takes a maximum of 12 months and is typically much shorter. They had monitored the locations for the first three events on the schedule and the guest speaker had in fact appeared exactly when he was supposed to. The investment commitments of the concessionaires should be bound to a particular schedule for carrying out their contract, the auditors said. After this, further treatment schedules can be planned. The demand for meat in the US forces the slaughterhouses to maintain rigorous production schedules. Companies get ordering and inventory data at the click of a mouse, so they can rapidly adjust production schedules. The engineer finally had to start over with an entirely new concept very late in the process, delaying the schedule for the whole project. As the Games developed, so did a set of procedures such as standardised schedule of events and the practice of the Olympic Truce. The Festival will be wrapped up on Monday but not before a fun-filled schedule of events are enjoyed by the townsfolk. Project schedules, plans and budgets are important, but without quality ideas, great design is impossible. Most of the nationalised and private banks today offer flexible repayment schedules for purchase of pre-owned cars. The competition schedule includes 28 Olympic sports that will be held at 37 venues. She admitted there were some difficulties with the number of trainers available to carry out training schedules. Last season there were 35 events on the schedule and Palmer feels that such a number is far too much. First, we planned our production schedule in great detail, with aggressive but realistic goals. They came up with a schedule, plan and fiscal philosophy that secured $50,000 in funding from the Council. The Supporters' Trust is to draw up a fund-raising schedule with several events planned for the close season. Synonyms plan, programme, timetable, scheme 1.1usually one's schedule One's day-to-day plans or timetable. 日程安排（表） take a moment out of your busy schedule 从你繁忙的日程安排中抽出片刻时间。 Example sentencesExamples Yesterday, Delaney was trying to rearrange his schedule in order to come. As I am a bachelor living in a condo with a fairly busy schedule, I vacuumed much more often with this thing than with a traditional upright. I sighed knowing the hectic schedule I'd just gotten myself into. Amidst this busy schedule, she says that she gets enough time with her family. Jarrett kept up this busy schedule until he was forced to enter the hospital. We are separated by the geographical distance between us, as well as our very busy, hectic schedules. Family schedules do not allow for uniform activities. Even though summer vacations are the only free time that a student gets in an otherwise busy schedule, it must be utilised to the maximum extent. Maybe you'll let me take you to lunch, if your schedule permits. They also provide Express Lunch, a 45-minute three-course set lunch menu which is specially designed to suit guests with a busy schedule. We continued to see each other at first every weekend, then it became every other weekend, then it became every 2 weeks depending on his busy work schedule! He arrived over the Christmas break after a unique situation freed him up from his usually busy schedule. This is a sampling of her weekly schedule: Monday: swimming at 5 a.m., school, singing classes in the afternoon. Also, when our schedules allow we like to tour as much as possible. Make time to talk with your child to counteract a hectic, busy family schedule. It fits easily around one's schedule, and allows the least stealthy among us to enjoy the chase. He might come home for a birthday or stop by when his schedule allowed it. Johnny raised his eyebrows and shrugged, ‘I suppose I could fit you into my extremely busy schedule.’ He congratulated her on her appointment as Minister for Agriculture and thanked her for taking time out of her very busy schedule to come to talk to the meeting. Despite his rather busy schedule, the flute maestro is in his own words at peace with himself. Synonyms timetable, agenda, diary, calendar, appointment book, list of appointments, social calendar 1.2 A timetable. 时刻表 information on airline schedules 航班时刻表信息。 Example sentencesExamples What a shame there won't be room for it in this years' packed TV schedules. For that matter even the train and airline schedules are now just a click away. While we observed religiously the timetable of the television schedules, she operated by New York time. Yesterday Continental Airlines cut flight schedules by a fifth and gave 12,000 staff a leave of absence. The BA source said the cumulative delays could play havoc with the airline's schedules. This year, however, students across the southeast will return the same day as divisions move toward coordinated calendars and busing schedules. The airline's schedules were not affected by the stoppage. Woods says she checked online flight schedules and flight times between some of the cities. At current rates of expansion, a huge proportion of British television schedules will be taken up with such drivel. Officials urged passengers to check with airlines on flight schedules and available service, and allow ample time to deal with new security procedures. Thai Airways International Plc will rearrange its flight schedules on some European routes during the low season. We had a successful broadcast in Carlow during Easter week 2005 and are presently planning our broadcasting schedule for the coming year. Airlines are curtailing flight schedules and laying off staff while the planes are travelling at about half capacity. The bus company has committed itself to always adhere to the schedule and the timetable. Hoteliers, however, have seen some cancellations and flight schedules have been disrupted. The 1930s had seen a rapid development in radio navigational techniques, spurred by the need for airlines to maintain schedules despite changeable weather. While the network is years away from establishing a primetime schedule complete with its own brand of original programming, PAX is making inroads. Go to the MTA Web site for maps and information on fares and schedules. I have a good friend who knows just about everything having to do with airlines and flight schedules. Imported series have been a major part of British television schedules for nearly half a century. Synonyms list, catalogue, inventory syllabus 2Law An appendix to a formal document or statute, especially as a list, table, or inventory. 〔主律〕附件（尤指表格、单据等） they need a clear schedule of fixtures and fittings Example sentencesExamples The documents we have just been looking at are schedules to the partnership agreement, as, indeed, is the application form, which your Honours will find at 843. As the asset schedule makes clear, the financial resources are substantial and liquid. They would not, because there are statutory limits under the schedule to that Act. Clause 26 of the contract between those parties was deemed time to be of the essence, and by Item L of the schedule, encumbrances were listed as nil. The owner of such design rights is the person identified in the 2nd column in the table of the said schedule. 3(with reference to the British system of income tax) any of the forms (named ‘A’, ‘B’, etc.) issued for completion and relating to the various classes into which taxable income is divided. （英国所得税制的）报税单 Example sentencesExamples The IRS and the Department of the Treasury have announced an increase in the threshold for filing a separate schedule for interest or dividend income. verb ˈʃɛdjuːlˈskɛdjuːlˈskɛdʒəl [with object] 1Arrange or plan (an event) to take place at a particular time. 将…列入计划表（或时间表等） the release of the single is scheduled for April 计划4月出单曲唱片。 Example sentencesExamples The eagerly awaited National Culchie Festival is scheduled for Lisselton at the end of October. Those meetings are tentatively scheduled for the end of June 2004 and include meetings in the San Francisco Bay Area. The next council meeting is scheduled for Jan. 13. The fair opens at 10 am with the classic cars arriving at around 11.45 am and the Teddy Bear's Picnic is scheduled for 2pm. The mood in the trade has been downbeat in the recent past, which is why producers and distributors are nervous about scheduling the release dates of their films. The next annual Northern Economist Businesswomen Conference is scheduled for 12 and 13 August in Ongwediva. A press conference was scheduled for October 18 in Bangkok to officially announce the event on national broadcasts. He moved stiffly to the phone and scheduled a new photo appointment. All other events scheduled for tomorrow will go ahead as planned. Elections for the National Assembly were scheduled for April 2003, but later postponed until June and then October. Two years ago, the school scheduled home games at Everett Memorial Stadium. This year's Dartford Festival is scheduled for July 16 and 17. The first briefing is scheduled for Tuesday morning and, of course, CNN plans live coverage. We had scheduled Nicole's hair appointment for the following Saturday. As the Dec.1 World AIDS Day is approaching, a series of events have been scheduled for this month and next month. The Float Parade is scheduled to commence at 1 p.m. and the race will take place immediately after the parade at 3 p.m. The event was scheduled for last weekend but with only 20 ticket bookings the committee had no other option than cancelling. A large planning event is scheduled for the fall at Notre Dame, where the board hopes to hear reactions to the proposal. The following advanced learning and motivational events are scheduled for 2003. George says the event has been tentatively scheduled for Friday Februrary 6 and will be committee's final fundraising effort. Synonyms arrange, organize, plan, programme, timetable, fix a time for, make arrangements for, book, set up, line up, slot in, time North American slate 1.1 Make arrangements for (someone or something) to do something. 安排；排定 with object and infinitive he is scheduled to be released from prison this spring 他将被安排今年春天出狱。 Example sentencesExamples The government is scheduled on Monday to determine the action necessary to end the prolonged conflict in Aceh. Originally Miramax scheduled the film for release in late 2001, but after September 11 it was shelved indefinitely. Group of Seven finance ministers are scheduled to meet in Washington on that Friday. The system was originally scheduled to be launched on May 1. Chertoff's Senate confirmation hearing is scheduled to begin Wednesday. The government and the legislators are also scheduled to approve the selection of the senior deputy governor for the Central Bank. The book is scheduled to be released in 2003 and Dunphy is anxious that none of the material becomes public knowledge before then. The delegation is also scheduled to visit several U.S. military bases. He frowned, struggling to remember the time that they were scheduled to arrive. He believed it was plot to tarnish the Jamaat's name because he was scheduled to appear on a radio talk show yesterday. An autopsy is scheduled to determine how the Salisbury girl died. A commission was scheduled to be appointed within 10 days of the end of the strike to investigate possible unwarranted dismissals since March 1. Arrive at the airport least two hours before your plane is scheduled to depart. AU is scheduled to release its first-half profits on July 22. About 30 people were scheduled to fly out of Geraldton this morning and about 80 tonight. The issue is scheduled to go before voters in February or March but nobody is betting too much on it going ahead. Half of the 30 companies in the blue-chip Dow Jones industrial average are scheduled to release results. Now, the comedy flick is scheduled to be released in February of 2006. The extradition hearing is now scheduled to begin in London in January. Virtually all the tax cuts passed in the President's first term are scheduled to terminate on specific dates clustered around 2010. 2British Include (a building or site) in a list for legal preservation or protection. 〈英〉把（建筑物）列为文物保护单位 Cowley Bridge has already been scheduled and protected as an ancient monument Phrases ahead of (or behind) schedule Earlier (or later) than planned or expected. 按预定计划 work finished an astonishing twelve days ahead of schedule I'm behind schedule as it is Example sentencesExamples Almost half of the children's centres planned for Bradford will be built behind schedule, it has been revealed. Work is reportedly ahead of schedule and all the brand new homes are expected to be completed by 2005. The plans to link our cities with motorways are behind schedule. I am terribly behind schedule - I plan to finish my report during this week. The flight to Chongqing took off four hours behind schedule. Net debt at the year end is expected to be reduced ahead of schedule, at approximately €465 million. I'm a month ahead of schedule so I plan to go back up to seventeen and then take it down again. That ambitious project has slipped behind schedule. The remaining two levels of the parking garage are expected to open ahead of schedule later this month. Earlier this month it was revealed that some elements of the plan are running over budget and at least seven years behind schedule. Synonyms late, running late, overdue, behind time, not on time, behind, behindhand, behind target to (or on or according to) schedule On time; as planned or expected. 按预定计划 the filming was still on schedule Example sentencesExamples His plans apparently proceeded according to schedule. The overall plans for the visit of the African guests are well on schedule. We expect to deliver further releases to schedule next year. Building at the Polebarn Road site is on schedule, with engineers expecting to be finished by mid-summer. The holding pond must be emptied on schedule as specified in a waste management plan. It was decided to hold annual Christmas party on Sunday, December 11th, provided the proposed plans go according to schedule. If their plans were going according to schedule, we'd be in Syria right now. But a spokesman said engineers were confident that it would begin before the end of May, and would run to schedule. The barracks are expected to be completed on schedule next month and to come in on budget. Buses are more frequent and are running to schedule, prompting Londoners to take to them in droves. Synonyms early enough, in good time, punctually, promptly, on time, not too late, with time to spare, at the appointed time, at the right time, on schedule punctual, punctually, prompt, promptly, in time, in good time, on schedule, to schedule, when expected, timely, well timed Derivatives schedular adjective A transfer of assessing powers would bring railway companies within their more accommodating policies without disturbing the general schedular framework. Origin Late Middle English (in the sense 'scroll, explanatory note, appendix'): from Old French cedule, from late Latin schedula 'slip of paper', diminutive of scheda, from Greek skhedē 'papyrus leaf'. The verb dates from the mid 19th century. An early schedule was a ‘scroll, explanatory note, appendix’. It comes via Old French from late Latin schedula ‘slip of paper’ from Greek skhedē ‘papyrus leaf’. The sense ‘timetable’ is found from the mid 19th century in US usage. The British pronounce the word with an initial ‘sh’ sound but Americans with a ‘sk’. This prompted Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) to say to the British actor Herbert Marshal who had annoyed her by repeated references to his busy ‘shedule’ ‘I think you're full of skit’. noun.1 phr. Definition of schedule in US English: schedule nounˈskejəlˈskɛdʒəl 1A plan for carrying out a process or procedure, giving lists of intended events and times. 计划（表）；进度表 we have drawn up an engineering schedule 我们已经拟定了工程进度表。 Example sentencesExamples The investment commitments of the concessionaires should be bound to a particular schedule for carrying out their contract, the auditors said. First, we planned our production schedule in great detail, with aggressive but realistic goals. The competition schedule includes 28 Olympic sports that will be held at 37 venues. The demand for meat in the US forces the slaughterhouses to maintain rigorous production schedules. His demanding training schedules have improved his performances but have also come under criticism. Last season there were 35 events on the schedule and Palmer feels that such a number is far too much. The Supporters' Trust is to draw up a fund-raising schedule with several events planned for the close season. They came up with a schedule, plan and fiscal philosophy that secured $50,000 in funding from the Council. Companies get ordering and inventory data at the click of a mouse, so they can rapidly adjust production schedules. As the Games developed, so did a set of procedures such as standardised schedule of events and the practice of the Olympic Truce. After this, further treatment schedules can be planned. The engineer finally had to start over with an entirely new concept very late in the process, delaying the schedule for the whole project. A schedule of events marking the program's 10th anniversary can be found online. Control is about monitoring, comparing results, revising the schedule, and the plan, taking corrective action, and deferred gratification. Project schedules, plans and budgets are important, but without quality ideas, great design is impossible. She admitted there were some difficulties with the number of trainers available to carry out training schedules. They had monitored the locations for the first three events on the schedule and the guest speaker had in fact appeared exactly when he was supposed to. The Festival will be wrapped up on Monday but not before a fun-filled schedule of events are enjoyed by the townsfolk. Japanese development schedules show that the process takes a maximum of 12 months and is typically much shorter. Most of the nationalised and private banks today offer flexible repayment schedules for purchase of pre-owned cars. Synonyms plan, programme, timetable, scheme 1.1usually one's schedule One's day-to-day plans or timetable. 日程安排（表） take a moment out of your busy schedule 从你繁忙的日程安排中抽出片刻时间。 Example sentencesExamples Yesterday, Delaney was trying to rearrange his schedule in order to come. They also provide Express Lunch, a 45-minute three-course set lunch menu which is specially designed to suit guests with a busy schedule. Jarrett kept up this busy schedule until he was forced to enter the hospital. Maybe you'll let me take you to lunch, if your schedule permits. Even though summer vacations are the only free time that a student gets in an otherwise busy schedule, it must be utilised to the maximum extent. Make time to talk with your child to counteract a hectic, busy family schedule. We continued to see each other at first every weekend, then it became every other weekend, then it became every 2 weeks depending on his busy work schedule! Amidst this busy schedule, she says that she gets enough time with her family. We are separated by the geographical distance between us, as well as our very busy, hectic schedules. He congratulated her on her appointment as Minister for Agriculture and thanked her for taking time out of her very busy schedule to come to talk to the meeting. As I am a bachelor living in a condo with a fairly busy schedule, I vacuumed much more often with this thing than with a traditional upright. He arrived over the Christmas break after a unique situation freed him up from his usually busy schedule. I sighed knowing the hectic schedule I'd just gotten myself into. Johnny raised his eyebrows and shrugged, ‘I suppose I could fit you into my extremely busy schedule.’ This is a sampling of her weekly schedule: Monday: swimming at 5 a.m., school, singing classes in the afternoon. It fits easily around one's schedule, and allows the least stealthy among us to enjoy the chase. Family schedules do not allow for uniform activities. Despite his rather busy schedule, the flute maestro is in his own words at peace with himself. Also, when our schedules allow we like to tour as much as possible. He might come home for a birthday or stop by when his schedule allowed it. Synonyms timetable, agenda, diary, calendar, appointment book, list of appointments, social calendar 1.2 A timetable. 时刻表 information on airline schedules 航班时刻表信息。 Example sentencesExamples What a shame there won't be room for it in this years' packed TV schedules. I have a good friend who knows just about everything having to do with airlines and flight schedules. This year, however, students across the southeast will return the same day as divisions move toward coordinated calendars and busing schedules. While the network is years away from establishing a primetime schedule complete with its own brand of original programming, PAX is making inroads. Woods says she checked online flight schedules and flight times between some of the cities. The airline's schedules were not affected by the stoppage. The 1930s had seen a rapid development in radio navigational techniques, spurred by the need for airlines to maintain schedules despite changeable weather. The BA source said the cumulative delays could play havoc with the airline's schedules. Thai Airways International Plc will rearrange its flight schedules on some European routes during the low season. The bus company has committed itself to always adhere to the schedule and the timetable. While we observed religiously the timetable of the television schedules, she operated by New York time. Airlines are curtailing flight schedules and laying off staff while the planes are travelling at about half capacity. We had a successful broadcast in Carlow during Easter week 2005 and are presently planning our broadcasting schedule for the coming year. For that matter even the train and airline schedules are now just a click away. Imported series have been a major part of British television schedules for nearly half a century. Hoteliers, however, have seen some cancellations and flight schedules have been disrupted. Yesterday Continental Airlines cut flight schedules by a fifth and gave 12,000 staff a leave of absence. At current rates of expansion, a huge proportion of British television schedules will be taken up with such drivel. Go to the MTA Web site for maps and information on fares and schedules. Officials urged passengers to check with airlines on flight schedules and available service, and allow ample time to deal with new security procedures. Synonyms timetable, agenda, diary, calendar, appointment book, list of appointments, social calendar list, catalogue, inventory 2Law An appendix to a formal document or statute, especially as a list, table, or inventory. 〔主律〕附件（尤指表格、单据等） Example sentencesExamples The owner of such design rights is the person identified in the 2nd column in the table of the said schedule. Clause 26 of the contract between those parties was deemed time to be of the essence, and by Item L of the schedule, encumbrances were listed as nil. The documents we have just been looking at are schedules to the partnership agreement, as, indeed, is the application form, which your Honours will find at 843. They would not, because there are statutory limits under the schedule to that Act. As the asset schedule makes clear, the financial resources are substantial and liquid. 3(with reference to an income tax system) any of the forms (named “A,” “B,” etc.) issued for completion and relating to the various classes into which taxable income is divided. （英国所得税制的）报税单 Example sentencesExamples The IRS and the Department of the Treasury have announced an increase in the threshold for filing a separate schedule for interest or dividend income. verbˈskejəlˈskɛdʒəl [with object] 1Arrange or plan (an event) to take place at a particular time. 将…列入计划表（或时间表等） the release of the single is scheduled for April 计划4月出单曲唱片。 Example sentencesExamples The next council meeting is scheduled for Jan. 13. This year's Dartford Festival is scheduled for July 16 and 17. A press conference was scheduled for October 18 in Bangkok to officially announce the event on national broadcasts. As the Dec.1 World AIDS Day is approaching, a series of events have been scheduled for this month and next month. Elections for the National Assembly were scheduled for April 2003, but later postponed until June and then October. The mood in the trade has been downbeat in the recent past, which is why producers and distributors are nervous about scheduling the release dates of their films. The Float Parade is scheduled to commence at 1 p.m. and the race will take place immediately after the parade at 3 p.m. The following advanced learning and motivational events are scheduled for 2003. He moved stiffly to the phone and scheduled a new photo appointment. George says the event has been tentatively scheduled for Friday Februrary 6 and will be committee's final fundraising effort. The eagerly awaited National Culchie Festival is scheduled for Lisselton at the end of October. The next annual Northern Economist Businesswomen Conference is scheduled for 12 and 13 August in Ongwediva. A large planning event is scheduled for the fall at Notre Dame, where the board hopes to hear reactions to the proposal. The fair opens at 10 am with the classic cars arriving at around 11.45 am and the Teddy Bear's Picnic is scheduled for 2pm. All other events scheduled for tomorrow will go ahead as planned. The event was scheduled for last weekend but with only 20 ticket bookings the committee had no other option than cancelling. We had scheduled Nicole's hair appointment for the following Saturday. Two years ago, the school scheduled home games at Everett Memorial Stadium. Those meetings are tentatively scheduled for the end of June 2004 and include meetings in the San Francisco Bay Area. The first briefing is scheduled for Tuesday morning and, of course, CNN plans live coverage. Synonyms arrange, organize, plan, programme, timetable, fix a time for, make arrangements for, book, set up, line up, slot in, time 1.1 Make arrangements for (someone or something) to do something. 安排；排定 with object and infinitive he is scheduled to be released from prison this spring 他将被安排今年春天出狱。 Example sentencesExamples An autopsy is scheduled to determine how the Salisbury girl died. The system was originally scheduled to be launched on May 1. The issue is scheduled to go before voters in February or March but nobody is betting too much on it going ahead. The extradition hearing is now scheduled to begin in London in January. The government and the legislators are also scheduled to approve the selection of the senior deputy governor for the Central Bank. Virtually all the tax cuts passed in the President's first term are scheduled to terminate on specific dates clustered around 2010. A commission was scheduled to be appointed within 10 days of the end of the strike to investigate possible unwarranted dismissals since March 1. Now, the comedy flick is scheduled to be released in February of 2006. He frowned, struggling to remember the time that they were scheduled to arrive. The book is scheduled to be released in 2003 and Dunphy is anxious that none of the material becomes public knowledge before then. About 30 people were scheduled to fly out of Geraldton this morning and about 80 tonight. Group of Seven finance ministers are scheduled to meet in Washington on that Friday. Half of the 30 companies in the blue-chip Dow Jones industrial average are scheduled to release results. AU is scheduled to release its first-half profits on July 22. Arrive at the airport least two hours before your plane is scheduled to depart. Chertoff's Senate confirmation hearing is scheduled to begin Wednesday. The delegation is also scheduled to visit several U.S. military bases. The government is scheduled on Monday to determine the action necessary to end the prolonged conflict in Aceh. He believed it was plot to tarnish the Jamaat's name because he was scheduled to appear on a radio talk show yesterday. Originally Miramax scheduled the film for release in late 2001, but after September 11 it was shelved indefinitely. Phrases ahead of (or behind) schedule Earlier (or later) than planned or expected. 按预定计划 Example sentencesExamples The remaining two levels of the parking garage are expected to open ahead of schedule later this month. The flight to Chongqing took off four hours behind schedule. The plans to link our cities with motorways are behind schedule. Almost half of the children's centres planned for Bradford will be built behind schedule, it has been revealed. I am terribly behind schedule - I plan to finish my report during this week. Net debt at the year end is expected to be reduced ahead of schedule, at approximately €465 million. Earlier this month it was revealed that some elements of the plan are running over budget and at least seven years behind schedule. I'm a month ahead of schedule so I plan to go back up to seventeen and then take it down again. That ambitious project has slipped behind schedule. Work is reportedly ahead of schedule and all the brand new homes are expected to be completed by 2005. Synonyms late, running late, overdue, behind time, not on time, behind, behindhand, behind target on (or according to) schedule On time; as planned or expected. 按预定计划 Example sentencesExamples The overall plans for the visit of the African guests are well on schedule. His plans apparently proceeded according to schedule. Buses are more frequent and are running to schedule, prompting Londoners to take to them in droves. It was decided to hold annual Christmas party on Sunday, December 11th, provided the proposed plans go according to schedule. The holding pond must be emptied on schedule as specified in a waste management plan. We expect to deliver further releases to schedule next year. But a spokesman said engineers were confident that it would begin before the end of May, and would run to schedule. If their plans were going according to schedule, we'd be in Syria right now. The barracks are expected to be completed on schedule next month and to come in on budget. Building at the Polebarn Road site is on schedule, with engineers expecting to be finished by mid-summer. Synonyms early enough, in good time, punctually, promptly, on time, not too late, with time to spare, at the appointed time, at the right time, on schedule punctual, punctually, prompt, promptly, in time, in good time, on schedule, to schedule, when expected, timely, well timed Origin Late Middle English (in the sense ‘scroll, explanatory note, appendix’): from Old French cedule, from late Latin schedula ‘slip of paper’, diminutive of scheda, from Greek skhedē ‘papyrus leaf’. The verb dates from the mid 19th century. noun.1 phr.
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