programme - Wiktionary, the free dictionary (original) (raw)

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary

programme (plural programmes)

  1. UK, New Zealand, and India standard spelling of program.
    Our programme for today’s exercise class includes swimming and jogging.
    The programme about Greek architecture starts at 9:00 on Channel 4.
    ITEC is the Indian Technical and Economic Cooperation Programme.
    • 1961, New Scientist, volume 9, number 226, page 679:
      Thus once a computer programme has been prepared, vastly different conditions can be inserted and experimented with at the expense of a few hours of computer time.
    • 2010 April 17, David Cameron, “This is a radical revolt against the statist approach of Big Government”, in The Guardian‎[1], archived from the original on 24 October 2019:
      This is why the Conservative programme for government is founded on such a radical revolt against the statist approach of the Big Government that always knows best.
    • 2012, Kate Bassett, “Mid-Seventies Onwards: Operatic beginnings and _The Body in Question_”, in In Two Minds: A Biography of Jonathan Miller, London: Oberon Books Ltd, →ISBN, page 219:
      It had been sixteen years since the BBC’s Grace Wyndham Goldie wrote her internal memo about luring him back to make sociological/scientific TV programmes. Now a second note had circulated, from the science department, proposing that he should present the Corporation’s next educative megaseries.
    • 2025 June 3, David Smith, “Elon Musk calls Trump’s ‘big, beautiful’ tax bill a ‘disgusting abomination’”, in The Guardian‎[2], →ISSN, archived from the original on 15 July 2025:
      The bill extends Trump’s 2017 tax cuts and includes new spending for border security and the military. Republicans aimed to offset these costs with cuts to programmes such as Medicaid, food stamps and green-energy tax credits.
  2. (UK, rare) Alternative spelling of program (“computer program”).

See usage notes at program.

programme (third-person singular simple present programmes, present participle programming, simple past and past participle programmed)

  1. UK standard spelling of program.

Learned borrowing from Late Latin programma, from Ancient Greek πρόγραμμα (prógramma).

programme m (plural programmes)

  1. a program (set of structured activities)
  2. a program (leaflet listing information about a play, game or other activity)
  3. a program (particular mindset or method of doing things)
  4. (computing) a program (item of software; a computer program)
    Synonym: logiciel

programme

  1. inflection of programmer:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

From Late Latin programma (“a proclamation, edict”), from Ancient Greek πρόγραμμα (prógramma, “a written public notice, an edict”).

programme m (plural programmes)

  1. (computing, etc.) program