deadlines
SayDED-lynz/ˈdɛdˌlaɪnz/
- 1Plural of deadline.
Juggling multiple deadlines across two clients left her exhausted by Thursday.
The editorial team missed several deadlines after the software outage.
Note
A regular plural whose spelling does double duty: the same form is the present tense of the verb to deadline, meaning to ground an aircraft or declare a vehicle unfit for service. The word before it tells them apart. A determiner or number (three deadlines, our deadlines) marks the noun. A singular subject (the inspector deadlines the truck) marks the verb.
deadlines is a form of deadline
deadline, noun: A time limit, usually a date, on or before which something must be completed. Full entry
- Forms
- deadlinedeadlines plural
- Spelling
- deadline → deadlines: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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