reschedule

Language: en

🇺🇸 /riːˈskɛdʒuːl/

📖 Definitions

  1. verb
    To change the time or date of a planned event or appointment to a later or different time.; To alter the repayment schedule of a debt or loan, typically by extending the period over which payments are made.; To reorganize or rearrange a plan, program, or sequence of activities.; In computing, to change the priority or order in which tasks or processes are executed by a scheduler.; To postpone or defer an event to a future date.

🔗 Details

Word forms

3rd sing.: reschedules Past: rescheduled Past part.: rescheduled Pres part.: rescheduling

Collocations

reschedule a meetingreschedule an appointmentreschedule a flightreschedule a paymentreschedule a datereschedule for later

Derivatives

reschedulingrescheduler

Synonyms

postponerearrangedeferput offmove

Commonly confused

postpone
EN: 'Postpone' specifically means to delay to a later time, while 'reschedule' can mean moving to any different time, earlier or later.
cancel
EN: 'Cancel' means to call off entirely, while 'reschedule' implies the event will still happen at a different time.

Spelling tips

EN: Remember that 'schedule' is the root—avoid misspellings like 'rescedule' or 'reschedual'. The prefix 're-' attaches directly without a hyphen in standard usage.

💬 Examples

  1. We had to reschedule the meeting because the conference room was unavailable.

  2. The bank agreed to reschedule the company's debt over a longer period.

  3. The airline rescheduled all flights after the volcanic eruption disrupted air traffic.

  4. The operating system rescheduled the low-priority thread to allow the real-time process to run.

  5. The concert was rescheduled to next month due to the singer's illness.