1 a road, passage, etc. that is closed at one end:
The first street we tried turned out to be a dead end.
2 a point at which you can make no further progress in what you are doing:
We had come to a dead end in our research. * This line of investigation could prove to be a complete dead end. * He's in a dead-end job in the local factory (= one with low wages and no hope of promotion).
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for dead end is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is dead end a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, dead end is tagged as noun.
Does dead end appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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