scheduling

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of schedule

noun

1. (uncountable)A function in many aspects of industry, commerce and computing in which events are timed to take place at the most opportune time.
2. (countable)The time at which a particular event is scheduled.
3. (countable)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.”