deadline

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

The context of a due date originated in journalism, probably from an earlier usage in printing, representing a guideline marked on a plate for a printing press (inside which all content should appear). According to the Oxford English Dictionary, early usage refers simply to lines that do not move, such as one used in angling; slightly later American usage includes a boundary around a prison which prisoners must not cross.

Noun

deadline (plural deadlines)

1. A date on or before which something must be completed.

   I must make this deadline or my boss will kill me!

2. (archaic) A guideline marked on a plate for a printing press.
3. (archaic) A line which doesn't move.
4. (archaic) A boundary around a prison.

Translations

date on or before which something must be completed

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 截止日期 (cmn) (jiézhǐ rìqī (mainland China) or jiézhǐ rìqí (Taiwan)), 限期 (cmn) (xiànqī (mainland China) or xiànqí (Taiwan)), 期限 (cmn) (qíxiàn)

• Czech: uzávěrka (cs) f, termín (cs) m
• Finnish: takaraja (fi), määräaika (fi), deadline (fi)
• French: date butoir (fr) f, date limite (fr) f, échéance (fr) f
• German: Stichtag (de) m, Frist (de) f, Termin (de) m
• Hungarian: határidő (hu)
• Indonesian: tenggat waktu (id)
• Italian: scadenza (it) f
• Japanese: 期限 (ja) (きげん, kigen), 締め切り (ja) (しめきり, shimekiri), デッドライン (ja) (deddorain)

• Polish: nieprzekraczalny termin (pl) m
• Portuguese: prazo (pt) m
• Romanian: timp limită (ro)
• Russian: крайний срок (ru) (krájnij srok) m, последний срок (ru) (poslédnij srok) m, (jargon) дедлайн (ru) (dɛ́dlajn) m, срок (ru) (srok) m
• Scottish Gaelic: ceann-ama (gd) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: рок (sh) m, термин (sh) m

  Roman: rok (sh) m, termin (sh) m

• Spanish: fecha límite (es) f, requisito (es) m, compromiso (es) m
• Swedish: tidsfrist (sv) c

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Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈdedlɑi̯n/

Noun

deadline

1. (colloquial) A deadline.

Declension

Declension of deadline (type nalle) singular plural nominative deadline deadlinet genitive deadlinen deadlinejen deadlinein1 partitive deadlineä deadlinejä accusative deadline deadlinen deadlinet inessive deadlinessä deadlineissä elative deadlinestä deadlineistä illative deadlineen deadlineihin adessive deadlinellä deadlineillä ablative deadlineltä deadlineiltä allative deadlinelle deadlineille essive deadlinenä deadlineinä translative deadlineksi deadlineiksi instructive – deadlinein abessive deadlinettä deadlineittä comitative – deadlineineen 1) Rare.