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Answer for the clue "In time, I lag dreadfully: a restriction on the old? ", 9 letters:
age limit

Word definitions for age limit in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A restriction placed on an activity based on the age of the participants; either lower or higher limit.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ The age limit for buying tobacco has been raised to 18. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ At the moment we have under-17s, under-19s and then no age limit . ▪ Even the upper age limit for recruitment and retirement has been made ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. regulation establishing the maximum age for doing something or holding some position

Usage examples of age limit.

As a sixteen-year-old, he slipped into West Point under the age limit.

No lower age limit in this system-smart 12-yr-old girls vote every election while some of their mothers-and fathers-decline to be humiliated twice.

No lower age limit in this system - smart 12 - yr - old girls vote every election while some of their mothers - and fathers - decline to be humiliated twice.

When Gallieni reached the age limit in February 1914, Joffre had appointed Lanrezac, a “.

I read the paragraph meticulously beforehand, and there was no age limit or mention of ages.

Hucar understood and accepted this, but had been privately relieved when his own children passed beyond the age limit.

I thought they were all safe, I thought there was going to be an age limit!