dead wood

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: noun

[U] people or things that have become useless or unnecessary in an organization

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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.

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dead woodEnglish›ChineseGetWord Corpus dead woodEnglish›ChineseMain Dictionary

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dead wood