# Appointments Advanced

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- CEFR: C1 (Advanced)
- Theme: Daily Life
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Appointments vocabulary for a diary under strain, including double-book, overrun, diarise and defer — words for scheduling once it stops running smoothly.

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## Word list

* **double-book**: To promise the same time to two different people by mistake. — “Sorry, I seem to have **double-booked** myself this afternoon.”
* **overrun** /ˈoʊvərˌrʌn/: To continue past the time when something was supposed to end. — “The dentist **overran**, so I waited forty minutes.”
* **at short notice**: With very little warning before something has to happen. — “Sorry to ask **at short notice**, but can we meet tomorrow?”
* **engagement** /ɛnˈɡeɪdʒmənt/: A promise to be at a particular place or do a particular thing at an arranged time. — “I can't come — I have a prior **engagement**.”
* **tentative** /ˈtɛntətɪv/: Not fixed or certain, and possibly going to change. — “We made a **tentative** plan to meet on Friday.”
* **block out**: To keep a period of time free in your schedule for one particular purpose. — “I always **block out** Friday mornings for admin work.”
* **stand someone up**: To fail to arrive for a date or meeting you arranged with someone, without warning. — “He never turned up — she'd been **stood up** again.”
* **diarise**: To write an appointment or event into your diary so you remember it (British English). — “I'll **diarise** the meeting for next Tuesday.”
* **reshuffle** /riˈʃʌfəl/: To change the order or timing of a set of arranged things. — “They had to **reshuffle** the whole day's appointments.”
* **defer** /dɪˈfɜr/: To arrange for something to happen at a later time than originally planned (formal). — “She asked to **defer** her interview until next week.”
* **punctuality** /ˌpʌŋktʃuˈælɪti/: The habit of always arriving at the right time. — “**Punctuality** was the only thing he ever praised anyone for.”
* **allotted** /əˈlɑtɪd/: Given as an official share of time. — “Each patient gets an **allotted** eight minutes and no more.”
* **triage** /ˈtraɪɪdʒ/: The sorting of people by how urgently they need to be seen. — “A nurse does the **triage** before anyone reaches a doctor.”
* **elapse** /ɪˈlæps/: To pass, said about time. — “Three months would **elapse** between the letter and the reply.”
* **adjourn** /əˈdʒɜrn/: To stop a meeting and arrange to continue it later. — “They chose to **adjourn** rather than vote on it that night.”
* **stagger** /ˈstæɡər/: To arrange times so that they do not all happen together. — “The surgery has begun to **stagger** its morning slots.”
* **recall** /ˈriˌkɔl/: To ask someone to come back for a further appointment. — “The clinic will **recall** every patient over sixty this year.”
* **interim** /ˈɪntərəm/: Happening in the time between two events. — “An **interim** appointment was offered for the following week.”
* **outstanding** /ˌaʊtˈstændɪŋ/: Still not dealt with or completed. — “There are two **outstanding** items from the last visit.”
* **perpetual** /pərˈpɛtʃuəl/: Never stopping or ending. — “The clinic exists in a state of **perpetual** rescheduling.”

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