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
