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 

• AGE LIMIT (noun)

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)