Associations to the word «Deadlines»

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

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope