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Age limit   /eɪdʒ lˈɪmət/   Listen
Age limit

noun
1.
Regulation establishing the maximum age for doing something or holding some position.






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"Age limit" Quotes from Famous Books



... Temple was filling with other worshippers come to see the sacrifice, and soon there were sixty or seventy of them. The men outnumbered the women two to one, and none of them was very old. Fifty was about their age limit—and those who were near this age were reluctant to let their eyes rest on the hands of the idol. When they did glance at them, and at the cruel knife blade in the upper one, fear showed on their faces. There were ...
— Astounding Stories, July, 1931 • Various

... a vast procession of varied humanity. In tongue it is polyglot; in dress all climes from pole to equator are indicated, and all religions and beliefs enlist their followers. There is no age limit, for young and old travel side by side. There is no sex limitation, for the women are as keen as, if not more so than, the men; and babes in arms are here in no mean numbers. The army carries its equipment on its back, but in no prescribed form. The allowance is meager, ...
— Aliens or Americans? • Howard B. Grose

... excitement swept like a prairie fire over the country. Peter could not help hearing about this; his attention was attracted to one aspect of the matter—Congress was about to pass a conscription act. And Peter was within the age limit; Peter would almost certainly ...
— 100%: The Story of a Patriot • Upton Sinclair

... out of the bosom of the Weaver homestead; for, as the youngest twins were now "five past," they were held by the inexorable logic of rural argumentation to be "in their sixth year," and so to come within the age limit of the school law, and entitled to go to school and draw ...
— The Evolution of Dodd • William Hawley Smith



Words linked to "Age limit" :   regulation, ordinance



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