Usually means: Time limit to complete task.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. deadline: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. deadline: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. deadline: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. deadline: Collins English Dictionary
  5. deadline: Vocabulary.com
  6. Deadline, deadline: Wordnik
  7. deadline: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. deadline: Wiktionary
  9. deadline: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. deadline: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. deadline: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. deadline: Dictionary.com
  13. deadline: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. deadline: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Deadline (Crutcher novel), Deadline (DC Comics), Deadline (Grant novel), Deadline (Marvel Comics), Deadline (audio drama), Deadline (magazine), Deadline (science fiction story), Deadline (split album), Deadline (video game), Deadline: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. deadline: Rhymezone
  17. deadline, deadline (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. deadline: Free Dictionary
  19. deadline: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. Deadline: The Word Detective
  21. deadline: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. deadline: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. deadline: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. deadline: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. deadline: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)
  2. Oil and Gas Well Drilling and Servicing eTool (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A time limit in the form of a date on or before which something must be completed.
noun:  (archaic) A guideline marked on a plate for a printing press.
noun:  (archaic) A line that does not move.
noun:  (archaic) A boundary around a prison, prisoners crossing which would be shot.
verb:  (military) To render an item non-mission-capable; to ground an aircraft, etc.

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