Programme announced to get rid of Christmas (8)

I believe the answer is:

schedule

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'programme' is the definition.
(I know that schedule is a type of programme)

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(Other definitions for schedule that I've seen before include "List of duties, etc" , "Plan of times and events" , "Timetable; plan of action" , "Clues he'd dropped about timetable" , "You don't see loafers on this" .)

I've seen this clue in The Irish Times.

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