dead wood
dead wood noun: matters or things that have become unnecessary or otherwise useless; bloat, dead weight.
Noun
dead wood (uncountable)
- Matters or things that have become unnecessary or otherwise useless; bloat, dead weight.
- Everybody knows that when you have a layoff, you use it as chance to get rid of the people you wanted to get rid of anyway, but couldn't document or hadn't bothered documenting as bad employees […]. If you don't have much dead wood, you hope they make you use a senioentrity list, because then you...2001, Michael B. Arthur, Denise M. Rousseau, The Boundaryless Career: A New Employment Principle for a New Organizational Era, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 140
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see dead, wood.
dead wood meaning in Tamil and Kannada
dead wood in Tamil
- சிதைவுறு மரப்பகுதி
dead wood in Kannada
- ಒಣರೆಂಬೆ, ಬಳಕೆಗೆಬಾರದ, ಹಾಳಾದ, ಯಾವುದೇ ಪ್ರಯೋಜನವಿಲ್ಲದ
Words formed from dead wood
Questions about dead wood
- What does dead wood mean?
- Dead wood means matters or things that have become unnecessary or otherwise useless; bloat, dead weight.
- What is dead wood in Tamil?
- Dead wood in Tamil is சிதைவுறு மரப்பகுதி. See Dead wood meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is dead wood?
- Dead wood is a noun.
Words near dead wood in the dictionary
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