A
random deadline to complete a task, which has no real world consequences. For example, your office sets
Monday as the deadline on all canned food donations for charity , but the
box just sits there until Friday, which is the actual day they planned on taking it to the food bank.
"Hey
bro, did you get your weekly report done for the big boss? He needs it today!"
"Naaah, it's only
Wednesday.
Wednesday's an artificial deadline, because he doesn't even send those reports to corporate for another week."