Definition of "program"

program

/ˈpɹəʊɡɹæm/

noun
plural programs
1. A set of structured activities.
2. A leaflet listing information about a play, game or other activity.
3. (politics) A set of principle goals which are supported by a political party or individual candidate
4. (broadcasting) A performance of a show or other broadcast on radio or television.
5. (computing) A software application, or a collection of software applications, designed to perform a specific task.
6. (especially in the phrase "get with the program") A particular mindset or method of doing things.
  Quotations
  Ellis: Come on, John, why don’t you get with the program and tell him where the detonators are?
  1988, Die Hard
7. (music, computing) A custom tracklist.
verb
third-person singular simple present programs, present participle programming or programing, simple past and past participle programmed or programed
1. (transitive) To enter a program or other instructions into (a computer or other electronic device) to instruct it to do a particular task.
2. (transitive) To develop (software) by writing program code.
3. (transitive) To put together the schedule of an event.
4. (broadcasting) To schedule the programming; to determine what will be broadcast.
  Quotations
  We program for special audience groups, too, as shown by our Mexican language program each Sunday morning.
  1956, United States. Congress. Senate, Hearings, volume 5, page 2586
5. (transitive) To cause to automatically behave in a particular way.