dead-end
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4.9
- adjective
- /ˈdɛdˌɛnd/
:
sin salida
- If you are out of work or stuck in a dead-end job, it's okay.
- a dead-end job
If you've never heard that kind of encouragement in your life, or you are in a dead end or soulless job, hearing these kinds of things can feel really compelling.
- If you've never heard that kind of encouragement in your life, or you are in a dead end or soulless job, hearing these kinds of things can feel really compelling.
- So dropped out of college and just went into a series of pretty dead end jobs, making windows, working in a factory.
- If you're at a dead end job, you've nothing going for you.
- She is struggling with money and she has this dead end job at a store.
Examples
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And it's not like this is a total dead-end job.
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Holding down three dead-end jobs, going on four.
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So dropped out of college and just went into a series of pretty dead end jobs, making windows, working in a factory.
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You need credit, you need a job that isn't a dead end, and you need real estate.
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She is struggling with money and she has this dead end job at a store.
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If you're at a dead end job, you've nothing going for you.
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Clerical positions are often dead-end, poorly paid jobs, with no "career" options.
Academic text (1990) -
Here's a loser trapped in a dead-end job... and a... a loveless marriage.
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Frontline work in LTC was characterized as an unskilled, "dead end" occupation.
Academic text (1994) -
She is struggling with money and she has this dead-end job at a store.
Synonyms
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4.7
Showing little hope or encouragement
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2.5
Feeling no hope about a situation or the future
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6.5
Unable to continue because progress has stopped
1
8.4
A situation that gives no chance to get a better life or succeed
Being without hope of getting better or succeeding
Antonyms
How Promising
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word dead-end comes from the idea of a road that stops with no exit: dead means 'no life or movement' and end means 'the final point'. So a dead-end job or situation is one with 'no way forward' and little chance to move on.