age limit
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- noun
- /eɪdʒ ˈlɪmɪt/
- Some scholarships have an age limit that restricts applicants to those under 30.
- upper age limit
- set an age limit
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- I would say that it's good to have this age limit.
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Examples
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The sports club has a strict age limit of 18 years for new members.
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At U.S. Bank, there is no age limit; you just need to be at least 18.
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Both of these sites have an age limit of 13.
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Is there an upper age limit for teaching in public schools in South Korea?
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The Act of 1986 fixed the age limit for a boy to be a juvenile at 16 years and for a girl at 18 years.
Academic text (2018) -
I want to emphasize there is no deadline or age limit for when a person can learn to read or become a better reader.
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The drinking age in Tanzania is 18, unlike the 21 age limit in the United States.
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And if restricting consumers is such a bad thing, why do we have age limits on alcohol and tobacco consumption?
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The age limit (less than 28 years) can be waived on occasion.
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In many countries, the legal age limit for drinking alcohol is set at 21 years.
Synonyms
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A rule or action that limits what you can do
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A rule that controls how much or how many of something there can be
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The age at which a person becomes an adult by law
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning of 'age limit' is directly compositional from 'age' (a person's years) and 'limit' (a permitted boundary), so a learner who knows both words can readily infer a rule setting a maximum or minimum age. This noun–noun construction is cross-linguistically common and follows regular English compounding patterns, making it easily understandable at B1 level.
Etymology
The noun age limit comes from a simple image of a gate with a number that shows the age and a mark that shows the limit. That number tells who is 'allowed' or not, so the phrase means a rule that sets the youngest or oldest age for doing something.