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[ US /ˌdɛˈdɛnd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. lacking opportunities for development or advancement
    stuck in a dead-end job

How To Use dead-end In A Sentence

  • This dead-end dirt road follows a peaceful stretch of the Housatonic River and connects to the Appalachian Trail.
  • It's just going to be a dead-end affair for you and you deserve better. The Sun
  • It has been a 200-year diversion from solar, wind, hydro- and bio-power, beneficial in its time, but now a dead-end addiction. William S. Becker: The Solar Soldier Is No Fad
  • She has not turned onto the dead-end road of reminiscence, disability and dependence, but rather onto the long, fulfilling road of life, happiness, and salvation.
  • At what point did he see that the two important women in the novel, Amy and the "delighting" young writer Jamie Logan — the object of Zuckerman's dead-end desire — have usefully assonant names? The Rake’s Progress Giving Up The Ghost
  • amd fan boi: do something useful for once if that is all possible, given your penchant for dead-end technologies, shore up the blogs firewall and the one on fsj's IP also. and for f**k's sake shut up about 'caledonia,' or i'll have 'trey' back here insinuating 'c**kf*g' at you for your effeminate use of 'boi'! Sumner Redstone keeps firing people
  • The oft-heard stereotype of deadbeat poor people masks the growing reality of dead-end jobs and disposable workers.
  • The new highway dead-ended their lane.
  • Why this mattered is because there was a strong Northern push to abolish slavery: part humanitarian, part political calculation to redirect Northern worker anti-immigration angst away from the political dead-end of nativism, and part claim over Western resources. Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Post-War Devastation
  • Put me down as another Pell Grant recipient who has returned several times the value of the grants in differential taxes (i.e. additional taxes paid due to the difference in income between my professional salary and the dead-end job I would probably have had I not gone to college.) The Volokh Conspiracy » Back to the House
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