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dead-end
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dead-end
a dead end - a situation in which no progress can be made. He found himself stuck in a low-paid, dead-end job. (always before noun) She moved to London to escape from a dead-end relationship.


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The Voting Eights Act of 1965, largely responsible for the very existence of the CBC, does not include a "glass ceiling" provision for African Americans, dead-ending our political aspirations at the offices of mayor, U.
Basically, this involves a frank and helpful discussion of how the employee can grow on the job, avoid dead-ending, and measure up to the demands of the position.
The tour boat turns back at Butler Street to reveal the waterway's inherent design flaw; a single inlet dead-ending against concrete embankments bars New York Harbor's strong tides and their fresh diurnal doses of oxygenated water in the 1.
 
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