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dead⋅line
[ded-lahyn] 
–noun
| 1. | the time by which something must be finished or submitted; the latest time for finishing something: a five o'clock deadline. |
| 2. | a line or limit that must not be passed. |
| 3. | (formerly) a boundary around a military prison beyond which a prisoner could not venture without risk of being shot by the guards. |
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| dead·line (děd'līn') n.
To govern by setting a time limit: "He was never going to be deadlined by a day, or even a month" (New Yorker). |
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deadline
"time limit," 1920, Amer.Eng. newspaper jargon. Perhaps influenced by earlier use (1864) to mean the "do-not-cross" line in Civil War prisons:
"Seventeen feet from the inner stockade was the 'dead-line,' over which no man could pass and live." [Lossing, 1868]
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Language Translation for : deadline
Spanish:
fecha límite,
German:
letzter Termin,
Japanese:
締め切り
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