time-limits

Caps on duration

Time-limits are deadlines or restrictions on how long something may take or remain valid.

Courts impose time-limits on filing appeals.

Games have time-limits per move.

The hyphenated form appears mainly as an attributive modifier: time-limit rules, time-limit extensions.

As a verb, to time-limit is to impose such a restriction: The debate was time-limited to two hours.

regulation

cap

Covering for top

ceiling · quota · boundary · rule · enforcement · penalty · violation · curfew · expiry · statute

deadline

cutoff

Point of termination

extension · countdown · punctuality · procrastination · delay · crunch · expiration · finalization · target · milestone

scheduling

calendar

Date-tracking system

planning · appointment · docket · date · slot · booking · allocation · window · block · session

Opposites
temporal boundedness

time-limitsopen-ended

Lacking fixed boundaries

perpetuity · in perpetuity · timelessness · without end · infinite time

constraint vs. freedom

time-limitsunlimited

Without bounds or restrictions

unrestricted · unconstrained · flexibility · take your time · freedom

Family

time, limit, times, limits, timed, timing, timer, timers, timely

Familiarity
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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Everyday, not technical · Rated G