off schedule
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3.2
- adjective
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fuera de horario
- After several delays, the train was significantly off schedule compared to its original timetable.
- throw us off schedule
- go off schedule
- minutes off schedule
Examples
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Travel can really throw you off schedule.
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I don't want us to get off schedule just because of this.
Fiction book (1998) -
So the the reason we're off schedule is for a good reason really guys, because we're doing a live show.
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I got a little off schedule and now I have to catch up.
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"I'm all off schedule," she told Grace when Grace called up to see why she was at home and not at the library.
Fiction book (1998) -
No I'm completely off schedule thanks to you and I know that you meant well and everything, but I have a schedule to keep.
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"Seems like everything's off schedule lately.
Fiction book (1991) -
And if we're off schedule even by one tray, I'm gonna call Alan Duk.
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Everything's off schedule today.
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Utah's transit agency is engaged in a variety of industry-leading practices, including creating and installing screens that tell bus operators regularly whether or not they are off-schedule.
Blog text (17)
Synonyms
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1.0
After the usual or planned time
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3.9
Arriving or happening later than expected
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3.2
Not arriving or starting at the expected time
Antonyms
How Timely
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∞
1.0
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2.0
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3.2
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2.2
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'not happening at the time planned' is directly and predictably built from 'off' (away from/not on) plus 'schedule' (timetable). This compositional pattern (off + timetable = not on the timetable) is common cross-linguistically and should be immediately understandable to a B1 learner who knows both constituents.
Etymology
Off schedule may come from train timetables. When a train did not follow the printed times and ran 'late', it was off the schedule, so today the phrase means 'not happening when planned'.