Definitions for deadline

deadline dead·line

Spelling: [ded-lahyn]
IPA: /ˈdɛdˌlaɪn/

Deadline is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 220 anagrams from letters in deadline (addeeiln).

Definitions for deadline

noun

  1. the time by which something must be finished or submitted; the latest time for finishing something:
  2. a line or limit that must not be passed.
  3. (formerly) a boundary around a military prison beyond which a prisoner could not venture without risk of being shot by the guards.

Origin of deadline

First recorded in 1855-60; dead + line1

Examples for deadline

Their deadline for establishing residence was up that night.

I love the quote that Sharon Klein gave in the release on deadline.

It seemed as if we had shipped all the human dregs of the San Francisco deadline.

It was Dec. 20, 1991, the deadline for the New Hampshire primary.

But probably because we co-edited the deadline Artists anthologies with our friend Jesse Angelo, we feel a fidelity to the form.

He had been given a deadline by the mayor and the citizen's group.

The deadline set for the commission to report its findings is March 2015.

Conservatives have made clear they want Republican leaders to use the December deadline to confront the president on immigration.

H will never again fall in for roll call on this side of the deadline.

Just like you always were—plus fifteen seconds on the deadline.

Word Value for deadline
Scrable

10

Words with friends

12

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