prolonged the deadline vs extended the deadline

Both phrases are correct and commonly used in English. They can be used interchangeably to convey the idea of moving a deadline to a later date.

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prolonged the deadline

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English to indicate the act of extending a deadline to a later date.

This phrase is used when referring to the action of making a deadline last longer than originally planned.

Examples:

The committee prolonged the deadline for submitting the proposals.
The company prolonged the deadline for the project completion.

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The Commission prolonged the deadline for both parties until 12 January 2010.
The Commission considers that the still fragile situation on the financial markets in particular in the SEE countries justifies the prolonged deadline of 30 June 2015 for the sale of the entities in those countries.
In Italy the regulator prolonged the duration of the glide-path beyond the deadline recommended by the Commission, allowing mobile network operators to charge MTRs which are significantly above cost.
In order to ensure that Section 2 of Chapter II may be properly applied, the deadlines need to be prolonged.
Therefore, the deadline will be prolonged to four months for the execution of recovery decisions.
(4) In these circumstances, in order that the examination and selection of the programmes can be completed, the deadline for the Commission decision should be prolonged until 15 November 2002.
The specific derogation to use PFOS as wetting agents for use in controlled electroplating systems is time limited in accordance with the COP4 decision. If technically justified the deadline can be prolonged, subject to approval by the Conference of the Parties to the Convention.
After that night, I thought it just prolonged the pain.
It upended the social order and prolonged the dark ages 150 years.
Looks like we've merely prolonged the inevitable.
Ritonavir significantly prolonged the half-life of Levitra to 25.7 hours (see section 4.3).
The terrorist attacks in the United States increased uncertainty and prolonged the economic downturn.
I prolonged the time limit for all of these.
By Regulation (EC) No 1205/2007 the Council prolonged the anti-dumping measures in force.
The Indian Finance Act 1999 prolonged the application from 2000 to 2005.
Additionally, the extension in 2004 prolonged the option with 5 additional years without remuneration.
The deadline for incompletes has passed.
The deadline should therefore be set.
The deadline for juilliard is this week.
The deadline for tabling amendments will be announced in plenary.

Alternatives:

extended the deadline
pushed back the deadline
delayed the deadline
postponed the deadline
moved the deadline

extended the deadline

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English to indicate the act of moving a deadline to a later date.

This phrase is used when referring to the action of making a deadline last longer than originally planned.

Examples:

The teacher extended the deadline for the assignment.
The manager extended the deadline for the report submission.

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Upon reasoned request of the Parties, I extended the deadline to reply until 19 May 2006.
In that case, EPSO published additional information about the competitions in the other official languages and extended the deadline for the submission of applications.
At the request of the interested parties that had submitted comments, the Commission extended the deadline until 15 September 2003.
But for heaven's sake Commissioner, by indicating today and presumably also at your press conference, that there is another two weeks, you will make everyone read that as meaning that you have simply extended the deadline.
So Olson's primary argument is that the Florida Supreme Court changed the law when they extended the deadline.
In view of issues that arose relating to access to file and confidentiality of certain documents, I subsequently extended the deadline to 10 November, in letters to all the parties (including Inbev), then until 24 November 2005.
So it extended the deadline for a year until 1996.
By letters of 30 January and 5 February I extended the deadline for Microsoft to comment until 8 February 2004.
By letter dated 30 April 2014, the Commission extended the deadline granted to the Belgian authorities to 23 May 2014.
For the exempted parties who did not respond to the screening questionnaire within the initial deadline the Commission has further extended the deadline to respond to the screening questionnaire to 21 November 2014.
On 9 July and, after it had extended the deadline, on 22 July 2002, it received observations from a competitor and from another interested party who requested that his identity remain confidential.
Owing to the protracted crisis in the cereals market the Greek authorities extended the deadline set for the repayment of the loans until 30 September 2010.
On 16 February 2010 the Council concluded that Romania had taken effective action to correct the excessive deficit and, given the sharper-then-anticipated deterioration in economic activity in 2009, extended the deadline for correction until 2012.
In October 2006 the ECOFIN Council issued a revised recommendation to Hungary, which, in view of a deterioration in the budgetary situation in that country, extended the deadline for Hungary to correct its excessive deficit from 2008 to 2009.
The EU had extended the deadline for the recognition of Cyprus, but Turkey had still not done this.
The EU had extended the deadline for the recognition of Cyprus, but Turkey had still not done this.

Alternatives:

prolonged the deadline
pushed back the deadline
delayed the deadline
postponed the deadline
moved the deadline

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