Illustration: At a community center competition desk, an attendant begins closing the narrow slot of a submission box while checking an analog clock whose hands meet at the top. A breathless entrant stretches forward to slide a plain envelope through the remaining gap, arriving at the very last moment.

JLPT N3nounLevel estimated by Bebop

締しめ切きり

shimekiri

deadline

Example sentences

  1. レポートの締しめ切きりが間近まぢかに迫せまっているので、私わたしはひどく忙いそがしい。

    I am terribly busy because the report deadline is near.

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  2. 〆切しめきりに間まに合あいますか。

    Can you make the deadline?

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 私わたしはいつも締しめ切きりを守まもっている。

    I always keep my deadlines.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 締切

  • 締tighten; tieOnテイKunしまる・しまり・しめる
  • 切cutOnセツ・サイKunきる・きり・きれる

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