tight schedule
noun
: a small amount of time to do something
We have a tight schedule to get this project done.
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After the strike ended, The Night Agent was on a very tight schedule, starting production at the beginning of February for a 2024 release.
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Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 8 Oct. 2024
Fortunately for all of us during this coming Virgo Season, Mercury is on a tight schedule, and its latest reign of terror will end during the first week.
—Jennifer Culp, Them, 16 Aug. 2024
Of course, that requires ESA to meet a tight schedule by sprinting to build, test and launch an ambitious interplanetary mission in less than four years.
—Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 16 July 2024
Pledging to keep prosecutors and defense lawyers on a tight schedule, Sommer has the trial ending July 19.
—Dominic Patten, Deadline, 9 July 2024
In her opinion, this camp was mostly oriented on teaching children such skills as time management and leadership, as some tasks are oriented on the proper estimation of the problem and children's ability to take responsibility for decisions and proposing some ideas or solutions in tight schedule.
—Yuriy Zaliznyak, ABC News, 6 July 2024
The actor went on to address how his attempt to accommodate amid his tight schedule was then spun in the media.
—Maddie Garfinkle, Peoplemag, 22 June 2024
Being a former lawyer herself, Becky understands that her clients, who have a tight schedule and are always working, forget themselves in the process.
—Hilary Tetenbaum, USA TODAY, 6 June 2024
There is an EVgo station in Santa Rosa, about 20 miles south, but our tight schedule didn’t leave time to divert there from our drive route that went north.
—Sam Abuelsamid, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2024
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Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 8 Oct. 2024
Fortunately for all of us during this coming Virgo Season, Mercury is on a tight schedule, and its latest reign of terror will end during the first week.
—Jennifer Culp, Them, 16 Aug. 2024
Of course, that requires ESA to meet a tight schedule by sprinting to build, test and launch an ambitious interplanetary mission in less than four years.
—Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 16 July 2024
Pledging to keep prosecutors and defense lawyers on a tight schedule, Sommer has the trial ending July 19.
—Dominic Patten, Deadline, 9 July 2024
In her opinion, this camp was mostly oriented on teaching children such skills as time management and leadership, as some tasks are oriented on the proper estimation of the problem and children's ability to take responsibility for decisions and proposing some ideas or solutions in tight schedule.
—Yuriy Zaliznyak, ABC News, 6 July 2024
The actor went on to address how his attempt to accommodate amid his tight schedule was then spun in the media.
—Maddie Garfinkle, Peoplemag, 22 June 2024
Being a former lawyer herself, Becky understands that her clients, who have a tight schedule and are always working, forget themselves in the process.
—Hilary Tetenbaum, USA TODAY, 6 June 2024
There is an EVgo station in Santa Rosa, about 20 miles south, but our tight schedule didn’t leave time to divert there from our drive route that went north.
—Sam Abuelsamid, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2024
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“Tight schedule.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tight%20schedule. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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