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ˈscheduled, ppl. a.
[f. schedule v.]
a. Entered on a schedule or list; included in a schedule.
1881Daily News 21 Jan. 2/1 Antrim was not in the scheduled district. 1888Ibid. 5 Nov. 5/2 Students..must make up their minds for which particular competition they shall enter, and..must..waste no time by straying from the scheduled path. 1911G. B. Shaw Doctor's Dilemma p. xx, Treatment varies widely from doctor to doctor, one practitioner prescribing six or seven scheduled poisons for so familiar a disease as enteric fever. 1921Report of Ancient Monuments Advisory Committee 6 A scheduled monument..whether public or private may not be in any way damaged. 1931H. F. Pringle Theodore Roosevelt iii. v. 568 He insisted..upon making a scheduled speech. 1952‘J. Tey’ Singing Sands ix. 130 Most of us fly scheduled routes, but some fly tramps. 1970Guardian 31 Dec. 18/3 BEA will be able to offer seats on scheduled flights to package tour holidaymakers..at knock-down prices. 1976Southern Even. Echo (Southampton) 16 Nov. 3/7 A scheduled meeting with Mr. Ford will not take place until the following week.
b. In specific collocations: Scheduled Caste (or class), in India, a category of persons in the lowest castes, or Untouchables; scheduled territory, between 1947 and 1972, any of a group of countries, mostly within the British Commonwealth, with currencies linked to sterling; the sterling area; after 1972 (see quot. 1977; the Republic of Ireland has now ceased to be part of the sterling area); Scheduled Tribe, in India, a group of aborigines who do not observe the taboos of caste.
1935Government of India Act 25 & 26 Geo. V c. 42 1st. sched. §26 The ‘scheduled castes’ means such castes, races or tribes or parts of or groups within castes, races or tribes, being castes, races, tribes, parts or groups which appear to His Majesty in Council to correspond to the classes of persons formerly known as ‘the depressed classes’. 1943B. R. Ambedkar Mr. Gandhi & Emancipation of Untouchables iii. 15 Under the Government of India Act of 1935 the Untouchables are designated as ‘Scheduled Castes’. 1975Y. B. Damle in H. M. Patel et al. Say not the Struggle Nought Availeth 143 Students belonging to the scheduled and backward classes tend to be less than ten per cent of the total students in most of the states.
1947Act 10 & 11 Geo. VI c. 4 §1 (3) In this Act..the expression ‘the scheduled territories’ means the territories specified in the First Schedule to this Act, so, however, that the Treasury may at any time by order amend the said Schedule, either by the additon or exclusion of territories. 1964Financial Times 12 Mar. 19/5 The Scheduled Territories are the British Commonwealth (except Canada), the Irish Republic, British Trust Territories, British Protectorates and Protected States, Burma, Iceland, the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, Kuwait, Lybia, South Africa and South West Africa, Western Samoa. 1972Statutory Instruments II. i. 2926 The Scheduled Territories now consist only of the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man, and the Republic of Ireland. 1977Guide to United Kingdom Exchange Control (Bank of England) 6 The Scheduled Territories at present comprise the United Kingdom, including the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man, the Republic of Ireland and Gibraltar.
1957G. S. Ghurye Mahadev Kolis i. 4 Many sections of Kolis describe themselves as Mahadev Kolis in order to be able to claim the special benefits of the Scheduled Tribes. 1972Times of India 28 Nov. 13/2 (Advt.), This post is unreserved, however, preference will be given to Scheduled Caste{vb}Scheduled Tribe candidates. |