[Ads-l] date-certain, adj.

Jonathan Lighter wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM
Tue Jun 21 12:18:13 UTC 2016


Not in OED.

'To be delivered, completed, held, etc., on a presumably unalterable date."

285,000 raw G hits.

Heard: "And that meeting is date-certain."  "And the delivery is date-certain."

JL

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