134 Dead-end job (PW) position with no future He decided to go back to college because he realized he had a dead-end job. (free) dead-end adj. 1. Having no exit. 2. Permitting no opportunity for advancement: a dead-end job. 3. Informal Tough and rowdy: a dead-end gang. intr.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. (your) dead·-end adjective having only one exit or outlet a dead-end street giving no opportunity for progress or advancement a dead-end job Etymology: after Dead End, a play (1935) by Sidney Kingsley about New York slum life Informal of or characteristic of slums or slum life intransitive verb to terminate in a dead end: said as of a street to reach or come to a dead end to dead-end in a middle management position |