deadline

deadline meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Telugu

Examples of deadline in a sentence

• She had to accelerate her work pace to meet the deadline.
• All candidates who miss the deadline or make a spelling mistake in their applications are automatically rejected.
• The negotiations were driven to completion minutes before the final deadline.

All 40 example sentences with deadline

Synonyms of deadline

• closing date

Forms of deadline

Plural of deadline: deadlines

Origin of deadline

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, early usage refers to lines that do not move, such as one used in angling. Slightly later American usage refers to a boundary in a prison which prisoners must not cross. There is only indirect evidence that the sense of "due date" may be connected with this use of the term in prison camps during the American Civil War, when it referred to a physical line or boundary beyond which prisoners were shot. In 1904, in a report from the US Department of Commerce and Labor, the term is used for "minimum work goals" (and in contrast to bonus line): for example, as a typographer the line could be 18,000 ems per day; should one not cross this line, then that could have negative consequences. In 1917, the term is attested as a printing term for a guideline on the bed of a printing press beyond which text will not print. Three years later, the term is found in print in the sense of "time limit" in the closely connected publishing industry, indicating the time after which material would not make it into a newspaper or periodical.

Words formed from deadline

• deadliest deadline
• deadline fighter
• deadliner
• postdeadline
• subdeadline

Phrases with deadline

• deadline fighters

Words that rhyme with deadline

• headline
• redline

Questions about deadline

What does deadline mean?

Deadline means a time limit in the form of a date on or before which something must be completed.

What is deadline in Tamil?

Deadline in Tamil is கெடு, காலக்கெடு, காலவரையறை. See Deadline meaning in Tamil.

What part of speech is deadline?

Deadline can be a noun or a verb.

How do you pronounce deadline?

Deadline is pronounced /ˈdɛdˌlaɪn/.

What is the plural of deadline?

The plural of deadline is deadlines.