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AGE LIMIT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does age limit mean?
• AGE LIMIT (noun)
The noun AGE LIMIT has 1 sense:
1. regulation establishing the maximum age for doing something or holding some position
Familiarity information: AGE LIMIT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Regulation establishing the maximum age for doing something or holding some position
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("age limit" is a kind of...):
ordinance; regulation (an authoritative rule)
Context examples
“He undertook to produce a man who should be within the age limits stipulated, and I understand that Harrison fulfils all the conditions. You are over five-and-thirty, Harrison?”
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
However, even this lower age limit was uncertain; in theory, the star could be almost as old as the universe itself.
(TRAPPIST-1 is Older Than Our Solar System, NASA/JPL)
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