meet a deadline
1meet a deadline — ► to finish work at the time or by a date that has been previously agreed: »Employees are under constant pressure to meet deadlines. Main Entry: ↑meet …
2meet a deadline — finish on time, complete before the appointed time …
3meet the deadline — complete a project or task by the scheduled time …
4deadline — dead‧line [ˈdedlaɪn] noun [countable] a date or time by which you have to do or to complete something: • September 30 is the deadline for sending in your tax return. • I think we need to set a deadline. • The financially troubled company didn t… …
5deadline — 01. We re going to have to work hard in order to complete this job for the [deadline] of 5:00 this evening. 02. The [deadline] for handing in our essays is 3:00 tomorrow. 03. You won t be able to meet your [deadline] if you don t stop fooling… …
6meet — ▪ I. meet meet 1 [miːt] verb met PTandPP [met] [intransitive, transitive] 1. to get together with another person to discuss something: • The directors met again yesterday evening to discuss the crisis. • The committee meets once a month …
7meet — meet1 W1S1 [mi:t] v past tense and past participle met [met] ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(see somebody at an arranged place)¦ 2¦(see somebody by chance)¦ 3¦(see somebody for the first time)¦ 4¦(see somebody at an airport/station etc)¦ 5¦(come together to discuss… …
8deadline — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ strict, tight VERB + DEADLINE ▪ face, have, work to ▪ We re working to a very tight deadline. ▪ …
9deadline — n. 1) to establish, set a deadline 2) to meet a deadline 3) to extend a deadline 4) to miss a deadline 5) to work against a deadline * * * [ dedlaɪn] set a deadline to establish to extend a deadline to meet a deadline to miss a deadline to work …
10deadline — dead|line [ˈdedlaın] n a date or time by which you have to do or complete something deadline for ▪ The deadline for applications is May 27th. deadline of ▪ It has to be in before the deadline of July 1st. meet/miss a deadline (=have or not have… …
