Other forms: rescheduled, rescheduling, reschedules
To reschedule is to move an arrangement to a different time. Reschedule the meeting, rescheduled for Tuesday, the flight was rescheduled.
It is the standard office and travel word for postponing without cancelling. In finance, rescheduling a debt means agreeing new repayment dates, usually because the old ones cannot be met, and it is a serious step for a country. Note the pronunciation, which is ree-SHED-yool in Britain and ree-SKED-jool in America; and that re- plus schedule is one of the plainer English compounds.
1verbrescheduleTo move an arrangement to a different time.
“The match was rescheduled because of heavy rain.”
2verbagreeTo agree new repayment dates for a debt.
“The debt was rescheduled over about twenty years.”
reschedule is a moving in time.
Latin
schedula — papyrus strip
Old French
cedule
Middle French
cedule
Middle English
cedule
English
schedule
English, today
reschedule
Built from
From re- + schedule. schedule Middle English cedule, from Middle French cedule (whence French cédule), from Old French cedule, from Latin schedula (“papyrus strip”), diminutive of Latin scheda, from Ancient Greek σχέδη (“papyrus leaf”), from Proto-Hellenic skʰíďďō, from Proto-Indo-European skid-yé-ti, from skeyd- (“to divide, split”). a doublet of cedula and cedule. This word was historically pronounced; the pronunciations with and are due to the spelling (the latter may have been reinforced by learned influence); compare schism.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA