deadlining
- 1Present participle and gerund of deadline.
The motor pool is deadlining two tanks with cracked tracks.
Deadlining an aircraft for a single faulty part can delay a whole mission.
Note
The -ing form does double duty: in a sentence like 'the crew is deadlining the jeep' it is a verb in progress, while 'deadlining a helicopter takes paperwork' uses it to name the act itself. The verb belongs to military maintenance. To deadline a vehicle or aircraft is to declare it not mission-capable and ground it, so a deadlined tank is out of service, not merely running late.
Mechanics are deadlining two of the helicopters until the rotor parts arrive.
Deadlining a truck for a cracked axle takes it off the duty roster at once.
deadlining is a form of deadline
deadline, verb: To take a piece of equipment out of service, such as grounding an aircraft, so it cannot perform its mission. Full entry
- Spelling
- deadline → deadlining: drop the e, add -ing
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