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dead·line  audio  (ddln) KEY  

NOUN:
  1. A time limit, as for payment of a debt or completion of an assignment.
  2. A boundary line in a prison that prisoners can cross only at the risk of being shot.
TRANSITIVE VERB:
dead·lined , dead·lin·ing , dead·lines
To govern by setting a time limit: "He was never going to be deadlined by a day, or even a month" (New Yorker).



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