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Age limit   /eɪdʒ lˈɪmət/   Listen
Age limit

noun
1.
Regulation establishing the maximum age for doing something or holding some position.






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"Age limit" Quotes from Famous Books



... excitement swept like a prairie fire over the country. Peter could not help hearing about this; his attention was attracted to one aspect of the matter—Congress was about to pass a conscription act. And Peter was within the age limit; Peter would almost certainly ...
— 100%: The Story of a Patriot • Upton Sinclair

... salvation, this farm by the roadside; for the very thought of surrendering the "La Salle" to another was wormwood and gall to Henry. It never occurred to him to quit and go over to the N.W. or the P.D. & Q., where they had no age limit for engineers. No man ever thought of leaving the service of the Chicago, Milwaukee & Wildwood. The road was one of the finest, and as for the run,—well, they used to say, "Drive the Wildwood Limited and die." ...
— The Last Spike - And Other Railroad Stories • Cy Warman

... much in favor of marriage, and families, and such things. I want one myself. And if I don't hurry up, I'll have to adopt it. There's an age limit, you know.'" ...
— Sunny Slopes • Ethel Hueston

... existing laws that make it an offense against society for dealer, parent, or other person to furnish children under sixteen with tobacco in any form; and raising the age limit to twenty-one, or at ...
— Civics and Health • William H. Allen

... out of the bosom of the Weaver homestead; for, as the youngest twins were now "five past," they were held by the inexorable logic of rural argumentation to be "in their sixth year," and so to come within the age limit of the school law, and entitled to go to school and draw ...
— The Evolution of Dodd • William Hawley Smith



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