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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
reschedule
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
debt
▪ Instead the land-reform promise took a back seat to coup threats, import liberalization and debt rescheduling.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A condition of rescheduling the debt was that Walker split his dual role at the top.
▪ Achieving a standstill is vital for Heron if it is to make headway in rescheduling its debt.
▪ Concern swung away from programmes designed to reschedule a reduction of service costs, back towards the earlier aspiration of redemption.
▪ For instance we can suggest ways of rescheduling the payments over a longer period.
▪ News Corp is trying to persuade its 150 banks to agree to reschedule that debt with higher interest charges but later repayments.
▪ Now it is pleading with the banks to reschedule £250m of borrowings to keep the company afloat.
▪ The negotiations, on rescheduling debts payable between mid-1991 and mid-1993, made some progress but no agreements were signed.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
reschedule

1912, from re- "back, again" + schedule (v.). Related: Rescheduled; rescheduling.

Wiktionary
reschedule

vb. (context transitive English) To schedule again or at a different time.

WordNet
reschedule

v. assign a new time and place for an event; "We had to reschedule the doctor's appointment"

Usage examples of "reschedule".

I left a note for Spike on the day, informing him that I had cancelled the meeting and would reschedule it.

Unable to secure the votes they needed to end the filibuster on Wednesday, the Republican leadership rescheduled the filibuster vote for the following morning.

In 1986, however, the bank started to delay payment of letters of credit owed to foreign exporters, and its failure to make installment payments on a syndicated loan of 500 million Eurodollars, forced rescheduling of the debt payments.

Someone like Lane ultimately rescheduled and resituated the Orient when he came to write about it.

In 1986, however, the bank started to delay payment of letters of credit owed to foreign exporters, and its failure to make installment payments on a syndicated loan of 500 million Eurodollars, forced rescheduling of the debt payments.

It was a good job no one had taken bets on the rescheduling of my hearing: the answering machine announced it would now be at nine on Wednesday morning.

Think of the refunds, the rescheduling, the bribing of transportation executives.

Vary your route to the office every day, never set patterns, spend the five to six minutes every morning to see if they've wired a mercury switch and C-4 to your windshield wiper, phone in fake restaurant and airline reservations, change your plans constantly, and at the last minute, reschedule, cancel again.

Little else was shown from morning until night as regular network programming was temporarily rescheduled.

The crisis at the United Nations had forced them to cancel a planned vacation in the northwest, and they had not been able to reschedule it.