timetablingn.
/ˈtʌɪmˌteɪbl̩ɪŋ/, /ˈtʌɪmˌteɪblɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈtaɪmˌteɪb(ə)lɪŋ/ The planning or arrangement of something according to a timetable; scheduling.
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timetabling1957
1957 Jrnl. Hist. Ideas 18 94 The most illuminating clue may lie in the time-tabling of the joint operations of Moreau's Army of the Rhine and Napoleon's ‘Army of Reserve’.
1969 Guardian 24 Oct. 9/2 Some will protest that the division of school time into 40-minute periods is essential for time-tabling.
1977 Mod. Railways Dec. 481/3 The obsolete layout at Liverpool Street is a major timetabling handicap particularly in that there has to be a comfortable margin at Platform 9 between the 00.30 Norwich departures and the 00.39 arrivals.
1990 Lang. Learning Jrnl. Sept. 93/3 There will be problems of timetabling as well as teacher supply.
2005 Jrnl. Business Ethics 60 277/2 Further discussion is delayed because of timetabling problems with the seller's contact person.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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- to lay etc on the shelf, also to set on shelf
- to lay eyes on
- to lay fallow, idle
- to lay fast
- to lay fast by the feet
- to lay for
- to lay forth
- to lay from, off
- to lay full low
- to lay hand
- to lay hand on or in
- to lay hand on or to
- to lay hand on or upon
- to lay hands on or in
- to lay hands on or to
- to lay hands on or upon
- to lay high fives
- to lay himself down to his work
- to lay hold on, of
- to lay hold upon, of
- to lay home, hard, hardly to
- to lay in
- to lay in a broad-band
- to lay in a broadband