deadline
She was an experienced and reliable journalist who never missed a deadline.
Millions of people have missed the deadline for filing their tax returns.
If you miss a single deadline, you may incur a fine or lose the contract.
I'm afraid you've missed the deadline - the deadline for applications was 30 May.恐怕你已经错过了规定的期限——申请的截止日期是5月30日。

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Failing and doing badly
abjectly
at-risk
backbencher
balls (something) up
be on your beam endsidiom
blow (someone/something) up
bomb
egg
flog
flog a dead horseidiom
flop
flub
flunk out
founder
mess
running on emptyidiom
sclerotic
screw
screw (something) up
sign someone's death warrant