deadline

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• /ˈdɛdˌlaɪn/
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According to the Oxford English Dictionary, early usage refers to lines that do not move, such as one used in angling. Slightly later American usage refers to a boundary in a prison which prisoners must not cross. There is only indirect evidence that the sense of "due date" may be connected with this use of the term in prison camps during the American Civil War, when it referred to a physical line or boundary beyond which prisoners were shot. In 1904, in a report from the US Department of Commerce and Labor, the term is used for "minimum work goals" (and in contrast to bonus line): for example, as a typographer the line could be 18,000 ems per day; should one not cross this line, then that could have negative consequences. In 1917, the term is attested as a printing term for a guideline on the bed of a printing press beyond which text will not print. Three years later, the term is found in print in the sense of "time limit" in the closely connected publishing industry, indicating the time after which material would not make it into a newspaper or periodical.

87 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: afat — date on or before which something must be completed
• Arabic: أَجَل (ʔajal) — date on or before which something must be completed
• Arabic: مُهْلَة (muhla) — date on or before which something must be completed
• Arabic: آخر موعد (ʔāḵir mawʕid) — date on or before which something must be completed
• Armenian: վերջնաժամկետ (verǰnažamket) — date on or before which something must be completed
• Bulgarian: краен срок (kraen srok) — date on or before which something must be completed
• Catalan: termini — date on or before which something must be completed
• Chinese Mandarin: 截止日期 — date on or before which something must be completed
• Chinese Mandarin: 限期 — date on or before which something must be completed
• Chinese Mandarin: 期限 (qíxiàn) — date on or before which something must be completed
• Chinese Mandarin: 死線 /死线 (sǐxiàn) — date on or before which something must be completed
• Czech: uzávěrka — date on or before which something must be completed
• Czech: termín — date on or before which something must be completed
• Danish: deadline — date on or before which something must be completed
• Danish: afleveringsfrist — date on or before which something must be completed
• Danish: frist — date on or before which something must be completed
• Dutch: termijn — date on or before which something must be completed
• Dutch: deadline — date on or before which something must be completed
• Esperanto: limdato — date on or before which something must be completed
• Estonian: tähtaeg — date on or before which something must be completed
• Finnish: takaraja — date on or before which something must be completed
• Finnish: määräaika — date on or before which something must be completed
• Finnish: deadline — date on or before which something must be completed
• French: date butoir — date on or before which something must be completed
• French: date limite — date on or before which something must be completed
• French: échéance — date on or before which something must be completed
• Georgian: ბოლო ვადა — date on or before which something must be completed
• Georgian: ზღვრული ვადა (zɣvruli vada) — date on or before which something must be completed
• Georgian: უკიდურესი ვადა (uḳiduresi vada) — date on or before which something must be completed
• Georgian: საბოლოო ვადა (saboloo vada) — date on or before which something must be completed
• Georgian: დედლაინი (dedlaini) — date on or before which something must be completed
• German: Stichtag — date on or before which something must be completed
• German: Frist — date on or before which something must be completed
• German: Termin — date on or before which something must be completed
• German: Deadline — date on or before which something must be completed
• Greek: προθεσμία (prothesmía) — date on or before which something must be completed
• Haitian Creole: dat limit — date on or before which something must be completed
• Hungarian: határidő — date on or before which something must be completed
• Indonesian: tenggat waktu — date on or before which something must be completed
• Indonesian: batas waktu — date on or before which something must be completed
• Irish: spriocdháta — date on or before which something must be completed
• Irish: sprioc-am — date on or before which something must be completed
• Italian: scadenza — date on or before which something must be completed
• Italian: termine — date on or before which something must be completed
• Italian: limite — date on or before which something must be completed
• Japanese: 期限 (kigen) — date on or before which something must be completed
• Japanese: 締め切り (shimekiri) — date on or before which something must be completed
• Japanese: デッドライン (deddorain) — date on or before which something must be completed
• Khmer: ផុតកំណត់ (phot-kɑmnɑt) — date on or before which something must be completed
• Korean: 마감 (magam) — date on or before which something must be completed
• Korean: 데드라인 (dedeurain) — date on or before which something must be completed
• Latin: terminus ante quem — date on or before which something must be completed
• Norwegian Bokmål: tidsfrist — date on or before which something must be completed
• Norwegian Nynorsk: tidsfrist — date on or before which something must be completed
• Polish: deadline — date on or before which something must be completed
• Polish: termin końcowy — date on or before which something must be completed
• Polish: termin graniczny — date on or before which something must be completed
• Polish: termin ostateczny — date on or before which something must be completed
• Portuguese: prazo final — date on or before which something must be completed
• Romanian: timp limită — date on or before which something must be completed
• Russian: кра́йний срок (krájnij srok) — date on or before which something must be completed
• Russian: после́дний срок (poslédnij srok) — date on or before which something must be completed
• Russian: дедла́йн (dɛdlájn) — date on or before which something must be completed
• Russian: срок (srok) — date on or before which something must be completed
• Scottish Gaelic: ceann-ama — date on or before which something must be completed
• Serbo-Croatian: рок — date on or before which something must be completed
• Serbo-Croatian: термин — date on or before which something must be completed
• Serbo-Croatian: rok — date on or before which something must be completed
• Serbo-Croatian: termin — date on or before which something must be completed
• Slovene: rok — date on or before which something must be completed
• Spanish: plazo (fin de / del) — date on or before which something must be completed
• Spanish: dedlain — date on or before which something must be completed
• Spanish: data límite / tope / debida — date on or before which something must be completed
• Swedish: tidsfrist — date on or before which something must be completed
• Swedish: deadline — date on or before which something must be completed
• Tagalog: palugit — date on or before which something must be completed
• Thai: เส้นตาย (sên-dtaai) — date on or before which something must be completed
• Turkish: mühlet — date on or before which something must be completed
• Turkish: deadline — date on or before which something must be completed
• Turkish: termin — date on or before which something must be completed
• Ukrainian: строк (strok) — date on or before which something must be completed
• Ukrainian: те́рмін (términ) — date on or before which something must be completed
• Vietnamese: hạn chót — date on or before which something must be completed
• Vietnamese: hạn — date on or before which something must be completed
• Vietnamese: thời hạn — date on or before which something must be completed
• Walloon: dierin djoû — date on or before which something must be completed
• Welsh: dyddiad cau — date on or before which something must be completed