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Definition of "deadline" []
- A time limit, as for payment of a debt or completion of an assignment. (noun)
- A boundary line in a prison that prisoners can cross only at the risk of being shot. (noun)
- To govern by setting a time limit: "He was never going to be deadlined by a day, or even a month” ( New Yorker). (verb-transitive)
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Use "deadline" in a sentence
- "* ` event Project deadline; 13.02.2010 ` - create new event with summary \ "Project deadline\" for 13.02.2010;"
- "The deadline is short for getting an agreement, and I think one of the things that we have consistently said is that rhetoric of that kind does not positively contribute to an ultimate solution here."
- "Writer Ethan Brown was in the Miami studio where Tim stayed up all night waiting for the rapper to finish recording his verses in New York; in the end, they missed the label deadline for"
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