Associations to the word «Deadline»

Wiktionary

DEADLINE, noun. A date on or before which something must be completed.
DEADLINE, noun. (archaic) A guideline marked on a plate for a printing press.
DEADLINE, noun. (archaic) A line that does not move.
DEADLINE, noun. (archaic) A boundary around a prison, prisoners crossing which would be shot.
DEADLINE, verb. (military) To render an item non-mission-capable; to ground an aircraft, etc.

Dictionary definition

DEADLINE, noun. The point in time at which something must be completed.

Wise words

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King