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Dateline vs. Deadline

Dateline and Deadline Definitions

Dateline

A phrase at the beginning of a newspaper or magazine article that gives the date and place of its origin.

Deadline

A time limit, as for payment of a debt or completion of an assignment.

Dateline

(journalism) A line at the beginning of a document (such as a newspaper article) stating the place of origin and typically the date, and often written in capital letters.

Deadline

A boundary line in a prison that prisoners can cross only at the risk of being shot.

Dateline

Misspelling of deadline

Deadline

To govern by setting a time limit
"He was never going to be deadlined by a day, or even a month" (New Yorker).
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Dateline

To attach a dateline to a particular document

Deadline

A time limit in the form of a date on or before which something must be completed.
I must make this deadline or my boss will kill me!

Dateline

An imaginary line on the surface of the earth following (approximately) the 180th meridian

Deadline

(archaic) A guideline marked on a plate for a printing press.

Dateline

A line at the beginning of a news article giving the date and place of origin of the news dispatch

Deadline

(archaic) A line that does not move. en
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Dateline

Mark with a date and place;
Dateline a newspaper article

Deadline

(archaic) A boundary around a prison, prisoners crossing which would be shot.

Deadline

(military) To render an item non-mission-capable; to ground an aircraft, etc.

Deadline

The point in time at which something must be completed

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