unscheduled

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ scheduled.

Adjective

unscheduled (not comparable)

  1. Not scheduled; impromptu.
    • 1947 January and February, Gerald Druce (Jun.), “A Journey on the "Slovak Arrow"”, in Railway Magazine, page 17:
      There were two further unscheduled stops, one at a small station, Skalice, where a small party of tourists entrained, and at Břeclav, a junction and customs post on the Austrian frontier.
    • 1962 April, R. K. Evans, “The Acceptance Testing of Diesel Locomotives”, in Modern Railways, page 268:
      Because most diesel failures can be traced to electrical faults, minor in themselves but often difficult to pin-point, any unscheduled halt during a trial run is often the signal for the frenzied unfolding of wiring diagrams and the appearance of an impressive array of voltmeters and circuit testers.
    • 2020 December 13, Eliott C. McLaughlin and Melissa Alonso, “SpaceX Falcon 9 launches and deploys satellite, days after another rocket crashed in Texas”, in CNN[1]:
      RUD stands for “rapid unscheduled disassembly” – a fancy way to say “crashed.”
    • 2025 November 12, David Stubbings, “Knife attack: heroes hailed for saving lives”, in RAIL, number 1048, page 10:
      He contacted the Rail Operating Centre in York to request an unscheduled stop at Huntingdon, which was arranged.
  2. (India) Not scheduled in the political sense.

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