An illicit money-making investment scheme whereby early investors are paid primarily or wholly by later investors. Eventually all such schemes fail to the detriment of recent (later) investors.

A fraudulent scheme where earlier investors are paid with the money taken from new investors, giving the impression that the scheme is a viable investment.

An outline or image universally applicable to a general conception, under which it is likely to be presented to the mind (for example, a body schema).

(obsolete) A slip of paper; a short note. / (law) A written or printed table of information, often forming an annex or appendix to a statute or other regulatory instrument, or to a legal contract.

To create a time-schedule. / To plan an activity at a specific date or time in the future. / To add a name to the list of people who are participating in something.

(rhetoric, obsolete) An artful deviation from the ordinary arrangement of words. / (astrology) A representation of the aspects of the celestial bodies for any moment or at a given event.

(intransitive) To plot, or contrive a plan. / (transitive) To plan; to contrive.

(finance) The schedule setting forth when and to what extent options become exercisable (for example, 20% per year over five years); could apply to restricted or deferred stocks also.

simple past tense and past participle of schedule

Planned; according to schedule.