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where does the word deadline come from?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.One of the earliest meanings of 'deadline' was an actual line drawn around a prison's perimeter, beyond which a prisoner, if spotted, would be shot at and possibly rendered 'dead'! It became associated with a cut-off point in publishing newspapers only in the 1920s. Perhaps the same sort of thinking lay behind it...the journalist had better not overstep it or he'd be in trouble.