Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Having no exit.
- adj. Permitting no opportunity for advancement: a dead-end job.
- adj. Informal Tough and rowdy: a dead-end gang.
- v. To terminate with no exit or possibility of advancement: The road dead-ends at the lake. That job dead-ends at the end of the year.
Wiktionary
- adj. Going nowhere; blocked.
- v. US To come to a dead-end
- n. The end of a road, (or by extension), the end of any event.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. lacking opportunities for development or advancement
Examples
“Long-time opposition leader turned elected president of Guinea, Alpha Conde, warned that without development for impoverished communities, democracy could become what he called a dead-end.”
Voice of America: West African Presidents Share Ordeals of Democracy
“Most househunters have monetary considerations and having an idea of the price saves maybe a dozen or so dead-end phone calls or inquiries.”
“Bexley Place is a short, dead-end road just east of St. Barnabas Road, originating from Old Branch Avenue.”
“Crafford Place, too, is a dead-end street, part of a residential complex.”
“Please be true so we can stop fooling around with these monolithic wind turbines and dead-end solar farms. aj229a Says:”
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“Since graduating I have been forced to live off the grid because getting a soulless, dead-end, low-paying job is the only other option and a horrible, hopeless option at that.”
The Huffington Post: Mike Newman: Forced to Fall Off the Grid to Follow My Dream
“With its title inspired by the Jorge Luis Borges short story of the same name, the exhibition revolves around the concept of the labyrinth--one in which false pathways, illusory exits, dead-end tunnels and pitfalls are frequently employed, creating the appearance of possible escape where there is none.”
The Huffington Post: Bill Bush: The Little Gallery That Did: This Artweek.LA (October 2-8, 2011)
“For these workers, the only help-wanted signs are for dead-end jobs that lead to poverty.”
The Huffington Post: Jeffrey Sachs: A New Direction for American Economic Policy
“Scrapping or overhauling "dead-end" courses would limit losses to the taxpayer from students who fail to repay their loans.”
The Guardian: 'Naming and shaming' for degrees with poor jobs record
“We may throw good money after bad ideas, or waste time in a dead-end relationship, because we haven't come up with an alternative, or because we don't want to admit to our friends and family, or to ourselves, that we were wrong.”
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