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The Great Depression of the 1930s saw more American unmarried women working from nine to five, mostly in repetitive, boring, subordinate, dead-end jobs. But the number of working women doubled between 1870 and 1940. During World War II it doubled once again.
Helen Fisher

Meaning of "dead-end" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF DEAD-END

dead-end  [ˌdɛdˈɛnd] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DEAD-END

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Dead-End is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb dead-end in English.

WHAT DOES DEAD-END MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of dead-end in the English dictionary

The definition of dead-end in the dictionary is to come to a dead end.


CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO DEAD-END

PRESENT

Present
I dead-end
you dead-end
he/she/it dead-ends
we dead-end
you dead-end
they dead-end
Present continuous
I am dead-ending
you are dead-ending
he/she/it is dead-ending
we are dead-ending
you are dead-ending
they are dead-ending
Present perfect
I have dead-ended
you have dead-ended
he/she/it has dead-ended
we have dead-ended
you have dead-ended
they have dead-ended
Present perfect continuous
I have been dead-ending
you have been dead-ending
he/she/it has been dead-ending
we have been dead-ending
you have been dead-ending
they have been dead-ending
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I dead-ended
you dead-ended
he/she/it dead-ended
we dead-ended
you dead-ended
they dead-ended
Past continuous
I was dead-ending
you were dead-ending
he/she/it was dead-ending
we were dead-ending
you were dead-ending
they were dead-ending
Past perfect
I had dead-ended
you had dead-ended
he/she/it had dead-ended
we had dead-ended
you had dead-ended
they had dead-ended
Past perfect continuous
I had been dead-ending
you had been dead-ending
he/she/it had been dead-ending
we had been dead-ending
you had been dead-ending
they had been dead-ending
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will dead-end
you will dead-end
he/she/it will dead-end
we will dead-end
you will dead-end
they will dead-end
Future continuous
I will be dead-ending
you will be dead-ending
he/she/it will be dead-ending
we will be dead-ending
you will be dead-ending
they will be dead-ending
Future perfect
I will have dead-ended
you will have dead-ended
he/she/it will have dead-ended
we will have dead-ended
you will have dead-ended
they will have dead-ended
Future perfect continuous
I will have been dead-ending
you will have been dead-ending
he/she/it will have been dead-ending
we will have been dead-ending
you will have been dead-ending
they will have been dead-ending
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would dead-end
you would dead-end
he/she/it would dead-end
we would dead-end
you would dead-end
they would dead-end
Conditional continuous
I would be dead-ending
you would be dead-ending
he/she/it would be dead-ending
we would be dead-ending
you would be dead-ending
they would be dead-ending
Conditional perfect
I would have dead-end
you would have dead-end
he/she/it would have dead-end
we would have dead-end
you would have dead-end
they would have dead-end
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been dead-ending
you would have been dead-ending
he/she/it would have been dead-ending
we would have been dead-ending
you would have been dead-ending
they would have been dead-ending
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you dead-end
we let´s dead-end
you dead-end
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to dead-end
Past participle
dead-ended
Present Participle
dead-ending
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DEAD-END


attend
əˈtɛnd
bend
bɛnd
blend
blɛnd
boyfriend
ˈbɔɪˌfrɛnd
Bridgend
ˌbrɪdʒˈɛnd
depend
dɪˈpɛnd
end
ɛnd
extend
ɪkˈstɛnd
friend
frɛnd
girlfriend
ˈɡɜːlˌfrɛnd
Gravesend
ˌɡreɪvzˈɛnd
pretend
prɪˈtɛnd
rear-end
ˌrɪərˈɛnd
recommend
ˌrɛkəˈmɛnd
send
sɛnd
spend
spɛnd
tend
tɛnd
trend
trɛnd
upend
ʌpˈɛnd
weekend
ˌwiːkˈɛnd

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DEAD-END

dead time
dead to the world
dead weight
Dead White European Male
Dead White Male
dead wire
dead zone
dead-and-alive
dead-ball line
dead-cat bounce
dead-end job
dead-end street
dead-letter office
dead-nettle
dead-smooth file
dead-stroke
dead-tree
deadbeat
deadbolt
deadboy

WORDS THAT END LIKE DEAD-END

ascend
at an end
back-end
best friend
come to an end
dividend
dog-end
front-end
high-end
in the end
intend
legend
lend
rend
single-end
suspend
the end
to the bitter end
top-end
vend

Synonyms and antonyms of dead-end in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «dead-end» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DEAD-END

Find out the translation of dead-end to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of dead-end from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «dead-end» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

穷途末路
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

callejón sin salida
570 millions of speakers

English

dead-end
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

गतिरोध का
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

مسدود
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

тупиковая
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

beco sem saída
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

কানাগলি
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

impasse
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

jalan mati
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Sackgasse
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

行き止まりの
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

막 다른
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Mati-mburi
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

để hả hơi
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

இறந்த இறுதியில்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

रस्ता बंद
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

çıkmaz sokak
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

dead- end
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

ślepa
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

тупикова
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

mort -end
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αδιέξοδο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

doodloopstraat
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

återvändsgränd
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

blindvei
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of dead-end

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DEAD-END»

The term «dead-end» is quite widely used and occupies the 28.505 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DEAD-END» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «dead-end» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «dead-end» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about dead-end

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5 QUOTES WITH «DEAD-END»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word dead-end.
1
Helen Fisher
The Great Depression of the 1930s saw more American unmarried women working from nine to five, mostly in repetitive, boring, subordinate, dead-end jobs. But the number of working women doubled between 1870 and 1940. During World War II it doubled once again.
2
Cullen Hightower
Worry compounds the futility of being trapped on a dead-end street. Thinking opens new avenues.
3
Sebastian Junger
My wife, Daniela, and I live in an old house from 1810 with three fireplaces at the end of a dead-end dirt road on Cape Cod, so I turn the trees into firewood for us and a friend of mine sells the rest.
4
K. D. Lang
When women make their image about youth and sexuality, and not about intellect, that's kind of a dead-end road. So I think it's a combination of self-entrapment and entrapment by society.
5
Rudy Rucker
I think dry nanotechnology is probably a dead-end.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DEAD-END»

Discover the use of dead-end in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to dead-end and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Dead End in Norvelt
Dead End in Norvelt is the winner of the 2012 Newbery Medal for the year's best contribution to children's literature and the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction!
Jack Gantos, 2011
2
Dead End in Norvelt
. . Dead End in Norvelt is Jack Gantos's hilarious blend of the entirely true and the wildly fictional, from one of the most darkly amusing imaginations writing today. Jack's summer has hit a dead end . . .
Jack Gantos, 2012
3
Dead End in Norvelt
. . Dead End is Jack Gantos's hilarious blend of the entirely true and the wildly fictional, from one of the most darkly amusing imaginations writing today.
Jack Gantos, 2012
4
Dead End
Dru and Gina are young, in love, and can’t wait to get out of Marshall, Nebraska, a town where bloodline means everything and whoever has the money makes the rules.
Jason Myers, 2011
5
Dead end
Collects two wordless stories with twist endings, including a mysterious suitcase which brings about a cycle of death, and an assassin's consequence for trailing a magician.
Thomas Ott, 2002
6
Digital Dead End: Fighting for Social Justice in the ...
The realities of the high-tech global economy for women and families in the UnitedStates.
Virginia Eubanks, 2011
7
Dead End
Two years after her fianc, FBI agent Dylan Shields, is murdered, FBI profiler Annie McCall is on the verge of starting a new life with Detective Evan Crosby, but she puts everything on hold to uncover the truth about the night Dylan had ...
Mariah Stewart, 2006
8
Teenage Wasteland: Suburbia's Dead End Kids
. Gaines shows how teens engage in cultural production and how such social agency is affected by economic transformations and institutional interventions."—Richard Lachman, Contemporary Sociology "The best book on contemporary youth ...
Donna Gaines, 1998
9
Dead End Kids: Gang Girls and the Boys They Know
Dead End Kids exposes both the depravity and the humanity in gang life through the eyes of a teenaged girl named Cara, a member of a Kansas City gang.
Mark S. Fleisher, 1998
10
Dead End Job
Frances works the night shift at a local convenience store, dividing her time between restocking shelves and working on her art.
Vicki Grant, 2005

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DEAD-END»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term dead-end is used in the context of the following news items.
1
The Obergefell Decision is a Dead-End for America
I believe in the “dead-end rule.” This rule states that if you go down a dead-end road and ignore the signs that say it is a dead-end, you will ... «Breitbart News, Jul 15»
2
7 Signs You're at a Dead-End Job
If careers were like roads, there would be big Dead-End signs posted on millions of cubicles around the country. But careers are slightly more ... «Go Banking Rates, Jul 15»
3
GOP's dead-end Cuba gamble: Republicans' Cold War-era tough …
After winning a great victory for communism with the Supreme Court decision upholding the Affordable Care Act's subsidies, Barack Obama ... «Salon, Jul 15»
4
The 3 Worst Reasons to Stay in Your Dead-End Relationship
I know, I know. You care(d) about this person a lot, and you haven't found the right time or opportunity to do the breaking up. Or maybe you feel ... «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
5
From a Dead-End Job to Creativity in Photography
For Jacques Nkinzingabo, a resident of Kimisagara sector Nyarungenge district, life hadn't been kind. As a survivor of the genocide against the ... «AllAfrica.com, Jun 15»
6
Big Tower Will Probably Wipe Out Cute West Avenue Dead-End
JDS Development Group has spent the last two months buying up both sides of the dead-end Monad Terrace in one of the last pockets of ... «Curbed Hamptons, Jun 15»
7
Paterson delivery man robbed at gunpoint on dead-end street
PATERSON – A restaurant delivery driver was robbed at gunpoint on a dead-end block in the 5th Ward on Sunday evening, police said. «NorthJersey.com, Jun 15»
8
Review: 'Burying the Ex' is a dead-end
Joe Dante's film, about a controlling girlfriend (Ashley Greene) who comes back from the dead to make life miserable for her boyfriend (Anton ... «azcentral.com, Jun 15»
9
Dead-end approach
Stumbling about in a dead-end sows seeds of discord. Cooler heads need to chart a course out, starting with our elected representatives, not ... «Coast Reporter, Jun 15»
10
If You're Feeling These 15 Things, You're In A Dead End Relationship
Here are signs that you're sticking with a dead-end relationship, and it might be time to move on: 1. You have more confusion than clarity. Time should bring ... «YourTango, Jun 15»

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