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134 Dead-end job

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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

 

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