timetable

timetable
[[t]ta͟ɪmteɪb(ə)l[/t]]
timetables, timetabling, timetabled
1) N-COUNT A timetable is a plan of the times when particular events are to take place.

The timetable was hopelessly optimistic...

Don't you realize we're working to a timetable? We have to have results...

The two countries are to try to agree a timetable for formal talks.

Syn:
2) N-COUNT In a school or college, a timetable is a list that shows the times in the week at which particular subjects are taught. You can also refer to the range of subjects that a student learns or the classes that a teacher teaches as their timetable. [BRIT]

Options are offered subject to staff availability and the constraints of the timetable...

Members of the union will continue to teach their full timetables.

(in AM, usually use class schedule)
3) N-COUNT A timetable is a list of the times when trains, boats, buses, or aeroplanes are supposed to arrive at or leave from a particular place. [mainly BRIT]

For a local bus timetable, contact Dyfed County Council.

(in AM, usually use schedule)
4) VERB: usu passive If something is timetabled, it is scheduled to happen or do something at a particular time. [mainly BRIT]

[be V-ed] On both days, three very different trains will be timetabled...

[be V-ed to-inf] Opie is timetabled to work a four-day week.

Syn:
Derived words:
timetabling N-UNCOUNT

Timetabling is a nightmare for all schools.


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