time limit

1. 1.

   a time period within which something must be done or completed

   Broadertime period

   Narrowerlimitation

Questions about time limit

What does time limit mean?

time limit means "a time period within which something must be done or completed".

Is time limit a common word?

time limit is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.