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death pile

death pile noun: unsold inventory.

Noun

death pile (plural death piles)

  1. Unsold inventory.
    • Death piles are a necessity for those times when one is too busy to source2019 May 30, almasty, “How to Eliminate Your Death Pile in 8 Easy Steps”, in Scavenger Life
    • We were frustrated and started drudging through our "death pile"2023 March 31, “Dealing with “Death Piles” and Excess Inventory”, in ConsignCloud
  2. A pile of corpses.
  3. A funeral pyre.
  4. A burial barrow or dolmen.
    • “Will you ask our oldest warriors to build me a barrow? Ask them to climb this headland and build me a death pile high on its top.”1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 47

Forms of death pile

pluraldeath piles

Questions about death pile

What does death pile mean?
Death pile means unsold inventory.
What part of speech is death pile?
Death pile is a noun.
What is the plural of death pile?
The plural of death pile is death piles.

Words near death pile in the dictionary

  1. death panels
  2. death penalties
  3. death penalty
  4. death pennies
  5. death penny
  6. death pile
  7. death piles
  8. death pit
  9. death plane
  10. death play
  11. death pool

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