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deadline
[ ded-lahyn ]
noun
- the time by which something must be finished or submitted; the latest time for finishing something:
a five o'clock deadline.
- a line or limit that must not be passed.
- (formerly) a boundary around a military prison beyond which a prisoner could not venture without risk of being shot by the guards.
deadline
/ ˈdɛdˌlaɪn /
noun
- a time limit for any activity
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- post·deadline adjective
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Example Sentences
It was Dec. 20, 1991, the deadline for the New Hampshire primary.
But probably because we co-edited the Deadline Artists anthologies with our friend Jesse Angelo, we feel a fidelity to the form.
Conservatives have made clear they want Republican leaders to use the December deadline to confront the president on immigration.
A curse-filled half hour that saw my blood boil as my filing deadline ticked further into the past.
I love the quote that Sharon Klein gave in the release on Deadline.
It had to be delivered exactly one week before the deadline that had been set by the receivers for closing the plant.
It still lacked several minutes of his deadline when he rushed into the Press office and laid his story on the city editors desk.
It was morning before he could return to the food warehouse—and one day closer to his deadline.
There would be exactly one hour's supply of oxygen when he was thrown out and it still lacked five minutes of the deadline.
Now, he had to make it to a twenty-minute deadline, without rope or alpenstock, a Moon-man adapted to a fraction of Earth gravity.
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