deadline
意味
- 最終期限;(新聞・雑誌などの)原稿〆切(締切)時間
最終期限
例文
She handed in her term paper after the deadline.
締め切り期限を過ぎてから彼女はレポートを提出した。
I have a lot of work to do before the deadline.
締め切りまでにやらないといけないことが山のようにある。
How can I make the deadline for this document?
どうやってこの書類の締め切りに間に合わせるんだ？
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
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.