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Definition: Deadline |
DeadlineNoun1. The point in time at which something must be completed. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "deadline" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1916. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Business | The hour or day after which advertising will not be accepted for appearance in a specific edition of a publication or specific broadcast time period. Source: European Union. (references) |
Law | A time limit, as for payment, news story. . . Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. A row of marked empty powder kegs or other danger signal placed by the fireboss to warn miners not to enter workings containing gas b. The part of a block-and-tackle cable from the traveling block to thedeadline anchor. (references) |
Publishing & Graphic Arts | The circulation works on a time schedule. This fact requires the meeting of deadlines by all those whose work precedes that of the distribution department. Source: European Union. (references) |
| The time when a story must be completed or an edition go to press. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| The time limit after which copy is not accepted for use in a particular issue of a publication. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Lateness | Adverb: late; lateward, backward; late in the day; at sunset, at the eleventh hour, at length, at last; ultimately; after time, behind time, after the deadline; too late; too late for. |
Leisure | No hurry; no big rush; no deadline. |
Punctuality | Adverb: on time, punctually, at the deadline, precisely, exactly; right on time, to the minute; in time; in good time, in military time, in pudding time, in due time; time enough; with no time to spare, by a hair's breadth. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Deadline |
| English words defined with "deadline": against the clock, against time, ahead, application ♦ drive ♦ labor, labour, last-minute ♦ push ♦ tug. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "deadline": deadline anchor ♦ earliest deadline first, EDF ♦ Fiscal Deadline ♦ Northeast Interstate Dairy Compact ♦ priority inversion ♦ Reasonable Further Progress, Reg T, Regulation T ♦ Saturday-night special, Scan-EDF, settlement day, SIP Call, Spot Bill, Stop the Clock ♦ TRAFFIC CLERK. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Deadline" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Swedish (deadline). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Deadline (1970) Chicago Deadline (1949) Deadline (1948) Below the Deadline (1946) Riders of the Deadline (1943) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Fish jumping at Deadline Falls.Credit: Carol Kauder. |  | Watchable Wildlife panel on trail near Deadline Falls.Credit: Rich Ray. |
 | Trail to Deadline Falls.Credit: Rich Ray. |  | Interpretive panel close-up along trail to Deadline Falls.Credit: Rich Ray. |
 | Bench along trail to Deadline Falls.Credit: Rich Ray. |  | Close-up of the interpretive panel at Deadline Falls.Credit: John Craig. |
 | Kayaking on the North Umpqua River at Deadline Falls.Credit: Unknown. |  | Chinook Salmon jumping in the middle of Deadline Falls of the North Umpqua River.Credit: Unknown. |
 | Deadline Falls (North Umpqua River) interpretive panel.Credit: Carol Kauder. | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Unlike an RFA (request for applications), this mechanism does not restrict researchers to a single deadline for proposals. (references) | |
Business | Tighter regulations included a January 1, 2000 deadline of the production, sale, and use of leaded and poor-quality gasoline in vehicles. (references) | |
Originally OFTEL set a deadline of July 2001, however, in a recent announcement, OFTEL issued draft guidelines which should now accelerate the process. (references) | ||
Contractors in receipt of the RFP will have 150 days to respond; again, note the proposal deadline in the RFP as issued, as it may be slightly shorter. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Russia | This deadline eventually was extended by a year to December 31, 2000 and liquidation was made mandatory. (references) |
Russia | A 1995 law required NGO's to reregister with local branches of the Ministry of Justice by a November 1999 deadline. (references) | |
Pakistan | On June 14, the Shari'a Appellate Bench of the Supreme Court extended for 1 year the deadline for implementation of this judgment. (references) | |
Economic History | Croatia | The party who must pay is given a deadline to comply with the decision. (references) |
Nicaragua | The agreement called for full implementation by mid-1999, a deadline that Nicaragua did not meet. (references) | |
Georgia | Unfortunately, a lack of interested bidders has pushed the deadline for bidding back to October 2001. (references) | |
Human Rights | Switzerland | The experts had not provided evidence of mistreatment by the deadline. (references) |
Argentina | Proposed legislation to extend the deadline for claims was not enacted. (references) | |
Central African Republic | In practice authorities often do not respect this deadline, in part due to inefficient judicial procedures. (references) | |
Minorities | Croatia | Even persons who filed before this deadline experienced arbitrary delays and obstructions. (references) |
Croatia | While the law itself did not include a deadline for filing applications, a decree issued by the previous regime did fix an April 1999 filing deadline (impossible to meet for many ethnic Serbs who still were refugees outside the country). (references) | |
Political Economy | Sudan | Several other NGO's that refused to sign left the area before the deadline. (references) |
Political Rights | Tajikistan | Only President Rahmonov, who used his political apparatus throughout the country for this purpose, was able to do so by the deadline. (references) |
Zimbabwe | After the MDC won 57 seats in 2000, the Government claimed that the MDC failed to submit its funding request by the deadline and that it was not entitled to state funds. (references) | |
Trade | Hungary | If customs clearance is effected on the basis of a lease contract or a lending for use contract, two percent of the customs debt imposed for each commenced month of temporary importation and reduced by the amount of VAT and excise tax shall be paid on return of the goods within the deadline of return; however after 50 months, total customs debt has to be paid. (references) |
Women | Kuwait | In July Islamist parliamentarians indicated that they would subject the Education Minister to formal questioning over the failure of the University to meet the deadline. (references) |
Worker Rights | Guatemala | In 1996 the Ministry of Labor reduced the number of steps needed to adjudicate union applications and mandated a deadline of 20-workdays for reaching a decision. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Deadline" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 96.94% of the time. "Deadline" is used about 817 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 96.94% | 792 | 8,754 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 1.71% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.73% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.61% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 817 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "deadline": after the deadline ♦ deadline pressure ♦ earliest deadline first ♦ fix a deadline ♦ meet a deadline ♦ meet the deadline ♦ no deadline ♦ printing deadline. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "deadline": deadline-defying, deadline-packed. | |
Ending with "deadline": beat-the-deadline, pre-deadline, transfer-deadline. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
deadline | 57 |
art deadline | 13 |
tax deadline | 11 |
deadline mlb trade | 9 |
deadline fafsa | 8 |
deadline trade | 7 |
deadline tracking | 7 |
baseball trade deadline | 7 |
deadline july scholarship | 5 |
deadline june.com | 5 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "deadline"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | vizë që nuk tërkalohet, afat i fundit. (various references) | |
Arabic | الموعد الأخير, الحد الاخير. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | последен срок. (various references) | |
Chinese | 期限 (allotted time, time limit), 最后期限. (various references) | |
Czech | uzávìrka (shutter, the closing date), termín (date, term), lhùta (date, period, reprieve, term, time), koneèný termín. (various references) | |
Danish | dead-line, deadline (closing time), tidsfrist, lukketid (closing time), frist der normalt ikke vil kunne forlaenges. (various references) | |
Dutch | uiterste tijdstip, tijdslimiet (closing time). (various references) | |
Farsi | فرجه (Interval, Respite, Start), ضرب العجل . (various references) | |
Finnish | takaraja, raja-aika (closing time), määräaika (fixed time). (various references) | |
French | dernière limite, dernière date, deadline, date limite de remise, date limite, délai de rigueur, délai de recours, délai d'acceptation, tombée, heure-limite, heure limite, heure de tombée, clôture de rédaction. (various references) | |
German | stichtag (effective day, qualifying date), letzter Termin, termin (appointed day, appointed time, appointment, date, fixture, hearing, time limit). (various references) | |
Greek | τελευταία προθεσμία (closing date), διορία (term). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מוע" אחרון, 'בול לא יעבור (dead line). (various references) | |
Hungarian | határvonal (borderline, border-line, boundary, cut-off line, demarcation, limit, line, line of demarcation, neat line, periphery, popping-crease, terminator), határidõ (term). (various references) | |
Indonesian | tenggat, saat terakhir. (various references) | |
Italian | termine del ricorso, scadenza (date, due date, expiration, expiry, expiry date, matureness, maturity, maturity date, run, term, time limit), ora-limite (closing time), chiusura (blinding, clam, clamp, closing, closure, end, fastening, fence, fencing, hurdle, lock, paling fence, picket fence, pursing, sealing, shutdown, shutting, wattle, zip). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | め切り日 (closing day, time limit), め切り (Closed, closing, cut-off, end, No Entrance), 切り (Closed, closing, cut-off, end, No Entrance), 切 (Closed, closing, cut-off, end, No Entrance), デジタル通信 (copy editor, dead, dead copy, dead end, dead heat, dead stock, dead time, deadlock, death, death education, death mask, debug, debugger, debugging, deck, deck chair, dedicate, dedication, deduction, de-escalate, de-escalation, Denebola, denier, denim, denomination, denotation, denotational, department, department store, departure, description, desk, desk plan, desk work, desk-top, desperate, desperate struggle, despotism, destination, destroyer, detached coat, detail, detector, detente, deterrent gap, Detroit, devaluation, device, digital communication, distributor cap, divider, fight to a finish, hit a batter by pitching a ball, rough sketch, to eat at Denny's), 提出期限 , 〆切り (Closed, closing, cut-off, end, No Entrance), 〆切 (Closed, closing, cut-off, end, No Entrance). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | デッドライン , しめきりび (closing day, time limit), しめきり (Closed, closing, cut-off, end, No Entrance), ていしゅつき'". (various references) | |
Korean | 경계 (Circumference). (various references) | |
Manx | linney vaaish, laa jerinagh. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eadlineday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | tempo determinado, prazo determinado, prazo de entrega de algo, hora limite (closing time). (various references) | |
Romanian | ultimul termen de predare, închiderea ediţiei. (various references) | |
Russian | сдать в ремонт, предел (ambit, bound, butting, circumference, confine, flash point, limit, measure, precinct, scope, stint, term, tether, threshold). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | rok (limit, respite, roc, rock 'n' roll, service, term), postaviti krajnji rok, krajnji rok (cutoff-date). (various references) | |
Spanish | fecha tope (closing, closing date, target date, time limit). (various references) | |
Swedish | sista tidpunkt, deadline (closing time). (various references) | |
Turkish | zaman sınırı, son teslim tarihi, sınır (border, borderland, borderline, bound, boundary, bourn, Bourne, butting, circumscription, compass, confine, extreme, extremity, frontier, limit, limitation, line of demarcation, March, pale, purlieu, skirting, stint, verge, watershed). (various references) | |
Ukranian | граничний строк. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "deadline": deadlines, deadliness, deadlinesses. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "deadline": postdeadline. (additional references) | |
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"Deadline" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: deadlined, dealine, deathline, deeline, delalande, Dodelinger, Donaldina. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "deadline" (pronounced de"dlī'n) |
| 5 | -e" d l ī' n | headline. |
| 4 | -d l ī' n | bloodline, guideline, hardline, midline, sideline, strandline. |
| 3 | -l ī' n | airline, alkaline, anticline, baseline, borderline, byline, coastline, crystalline, Dateline, dragline, feline, frontline, hairline, hemline, hotline, lifeline, mainline, multiline, online, outline, pipeline, shoreline, skyline, streamline, Timberline, underline, waistline. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-d-e-e-i-l-n" | |
-1 letter: aliened, delaine, ladened. | |
-2 letters: aedile, aedine, alined, aneled, dandle, deaden, deaned, delead, denial, denied, dialed, dindle, elided, indeed, laddie, landed, leaded, leaden, leaned, nailed. | |
-3 letters: addle, aided, ailed, alien, aline, anele, anile, dedal, deled, diene, dined, edile, elain, eland, elide, ended, ideal, idled, laded, laden, liane, lined, naled, nidal, nided. | |
-4 letters: aide, alee, anil, dale, dead, deal, dean, deed, deil, dele, deli, dene, deni, dial, died, diel, dine, eide, elan, idea, idle, ilea, lade, laid, lain, land, lane, lead, lean, lend, lied, lien, line, nail, need, nide. | |
-5 letters: add, aid, ail, ain, ale, and, ane, ani, dad, dal, dee, del, den, did, die, din, eel, eld, end, lad, lea, led, lee, lei, lid, lie, lin, nae, nee, nil. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-d-e-e-i-l-n" | |
+1 letter: datelined, deadlines, deleading, enfiladed, headlined. | |
+2 letters: deadliness, delineated. | |
+3 letters: adrenalized, deadeningly, delaminated, desalinated, desalinized, disentailed, interlarded, philandered, undecidable. | |
+4 letters: chandeliered, credentialed, deadlinesses, degringolade, denticulated, detailedness, disentangled, interpleaded, postdeadline, undefoliated. | |
+5 letters: candlelighted, credentialled, decentralized, dechlorinated, degringolades, demineralized, denaturalized, denuclearized, dependability, disenthralled, kindheartedly, underinflated. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 65 61 64 6C 69 6E 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. . .- -.. .-.. .. -. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01100101 01100001 01100100 01101100 01101001 01101110 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D e a d l i n e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0065 0061 0064 006C 0069 006E 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3871677078758071 |
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