dead end job
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3.7
- noun
- /dɛd ɛnd dʒɑb/
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trabajo sin futuro
- Many people find themselves stuck in a dead end job with no opportunities for advancement.
- stuck in a dead end job
- stuck in a dead end job
- get a dead end job
So dropped out of college and just went into a series of pretty dead end jobs, making windows, working in a factory.
- 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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Stuck in some dead-end job?
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If you're stuck in a dead-end job, you know what it feels like to dread getting up and going to work every day.
Blog text (17) -
I was working a dead end job.
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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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Holding down three dead-end jobs, going on four.
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I end up having to drop out of school, working a bunch of dead-end jobs just to make ends meet.
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If you are out of work or stuck in a dead-end job, it's okay.
Blog text (13) -
She is struggling with money and she has this dead end job at a store.
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Recent evidence shows that most women who have left the welfare system remain in poverty, mostly because they have moved into low-wage, dead-end jobs with no benefits.
Academic text (2002) -
Without racing, he'd have been stuck working another dead-end job, maybe selling cars at Zukowski's dealership in Signal Hill, living in a bachelor apartment with furniture from the Salvation Army thrift shop.
Fiction book (2002)
Antonyms
How Promotable
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly built from the constituents: 'dead' (no life/movement) + 'end' (final stopping point) yields 'dead-end' = no way forward, and applied to 'job' gives a position with no prospect of progress. This is a transparent, productive compounding pattern in English and is likely inferable by a B1 learner who knows the component words.
Etymology
The phrase dead end job comes from the image of a street that stops and goes nowhere, a dead end. Calling a job a dead end job links that picture to work with 'no chance of progress', so it means a job where you cannot move up or build a future.