dead·line 
(dĕdlīn′)
(dĕdlīn′)n.
1. A time limit, as for payment of a debt or completion of an assignment.
2. A boundary line in a prison that prisoners can cross only at the risk of being shot.
tr.v. dead·lined, dead·lin·ing, dead·lines
To govern by setting a time limit: "He was never going to be deadlined by a day, or even a month" (New Yorker).
- light heavyweight
- "Light Horse Harry."
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- lighting
- light into
- lightly
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- light mill
- light-minded
- light-mindedly
- light-mindedness
- lightness
- lightness
- lightning
- lightning arrester
- lightning bug
- lightning chess
- lightning rod
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- lightplane
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- lightproof