Deadline
English Meaning
The latest time or date by which something should be completed: "the deadline for submissions is February 5th".
- A time limit, as for payment of a debt or completion of an assignment.
- A boundary line in a prison that prisoners can cross only at the risk of being shot.
- To govern by setting a time limit: "He was never going to be deadlined by a day, or even a month” ( New Yorker).