deadline

About 3.30 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A time limit in the form of a date on or before which something must be completed.

   I must make this deadline or my boss will kill me!

2. noun A guideline marked on a plate for a printing press.
3. noun A line that does not move. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
4. noun A boundary around a prison, prisoners crossing which would be shot.
5. verb To render an item non-mission-capable; to ground an aircraft, etc.

Similar words

interval duration timing finish end period frame term limit ultimatum

Often followed by

for is of to and was date in on

Word family

deadlines