dead?line
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).

some people i work with should memorize that…