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Vinony

scheduling

noun

  1. the process of arranging, controlling and optimizing work and workloads in a production process or manufacturing process; is used to allocate plant and machinery resources, plan human resources, plan production processes and purchase materials
  2. planning a time for an activity or event
  3. in archival science, process of identifying and describing records held by an organization and defining their life cycle
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Wiktionary

noun

  1. A function in many aspects of industry, commerce and computing in which events are timed to take place at the most opportune time.
  2. The time at which a particular event is scheduled.
  3. Assignment to a schedule, or systematic arrangement.

    “The use of modified unit-dose rather than eight separate pharmacies with an individual prescription system could have prevented virtually all of these inappropriate schedulings of drugs.”

verb

  1. present participle and gerund of schedule