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plural deadlines
A time limit in the form of a date on or before which something must be completed. quotations examples
TfW's [Transport for Wales] plans to meet the PRM [Persons with Reduced Mobility] deadline and withdraw all Pacers by 1 January have been made more difficult by delays to introduction of Class 769 and 230 units.
2019 October, Rhodri Clark, “TfW seeks PRM derogation for Class 37 sets”, in Modern Railways, page 87
(archaic) A guideline marked on a plate for a printing press.
(archaic) A line that does not move.
(archaic) A boundary around a prison, prisoners crossing which would be shot.
third-person singular simple present deadlines, present participle deadlining, simple past and past participle deadlined
(military) To render an item non-mission-capable; to ground an aircraft, etc.