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# deadline

«deadline» in Mova's school dictionary: **the latest time or day by which something must be done or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a deadline, deadlines)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A deadline is the latest time or day by which something must be done or handed in. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/deadline/#m1)

2) (old use) A line in a prison that prisoners must not cross. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/deadline/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In school, homework and projects have deadlines; in adult work life people «meet» or «miss» deadlines. In maths problems you may count how many days are left before a deadline. Phrases: «meet a deadline», «miss a deadline», «a tight deadline», «extend the deadline», «the deadline is Friday».

### examples

- The deadline for the project is Friday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/deadline/#x1)
- I finished my story just before the deadline. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/deadline/#x2)
- Mum works late when she has a deadline. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/deadline/#x3)
- The teacher extended the deadline by two days. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/deadline/#x4)
- If you miss the deadline, you lose marks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/deadline/#x5)
- Newspapers have strict deadlines each night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/deadline/#x6)
- We had a tight deadline to build the model. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/deadline/#x7)

### note

Countable. One word. Maths: if the deadline is in 10 days and the work needs 2 days per part for 4 parts, you need 8 days and have 2 to spare. Planning helps you meet deadlines.

### In the corpora

- [Grief has no single right shape and no deadline.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/80-life-and-death-putting-it-all-together/18/)
- [Putting work off to the last minute is called procrastination; a deadline is when the work must be handed in.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/129-being-on-time-around-the-world/18/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «deadline» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/deadline/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.