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Deadline   /dˈɛdlˌaɪn/   Listen
Deadline

noun
1.
The point in time at which something must be completed.





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"Deadline" Quotes from Famous Books



... the Christian's God, or the great God of all, if he dare violate this command, shall pay for it with his head." I saw one of these old signboards on exhibition in a museum in Tokyo. Japan closed her ports, established a deadline around her domain and allowed no ships to land, shut out the world ...
— Birdseye Views of Far Lands • James T. Nichols
... Within the two-minute deadline that Coxine had ordered, the members of his crew were locking the last air lock and securing ship for blast-off. Coxine sat in front of the control panel, ready to give the final order that would send the vessel hurtling into space. In a little while, the evil mind, the twisted ...
— On the Trail of the Space Pirates • Carey Rockwell
... applying for a grant under this section shall submit its application to each State within which any part of that high-risk urban area is located for review before submission of such application to the Department. (B) Deadline.—Not later than 30 days after receiving an application from a high-risk urban area under subparagraph (A), a State shall transmit the application to the Department. (C) Opportunity for state comment.—If the Governor of a State determines that an application ...
— Homeland Security Act of 2002 - Updated Through October 14, 2008 • Committee on Homeland Security, U.S. House of Representatives
... 1974 divided the island into two de facto autonomous areas, a Greek Cypriot area controlled by the internationally recognized Cypriot Government and a Turkish-Cypriot area, separated by a UN buffer zone; UN deadline on sides accepting a federation plan for reunification have expired, diminishing chances of Turkish-Cypriot participation ...
— The 2003 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency
... be a deadline that he and his half-starved comrade faced; shadowy figures, half seen, sometimes merely heard and divined, flitted everywhere through the open woods beyond them. And at night a necklace of fires—hundreds of them—barred the west to them, curving outward ...
— In Secret • Robert W. Chambers


Words linked to "Deadline" :   point, point in time, curfew


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