- deadwood
- n. nonproductive or nonfunctional persons.□ We’ll have to cut costs by getting rid of the deadwood.□ Is there any way to make the deadwood productive again?
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Deadwood — a city in the ↑Black Hills of South Dakota. It is well known for its part in the history of the American Old West. Wild Bill Hickok, a skilled gunfighter, was shot here in 1876. Both he and Calamity Jane, a woman famous for her skill in shooting … Dictionary of contemporary English
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Deadwood — (spr. déddwudd), Bergbau u. Hauptstadt der Grafschaft Lawrence im nordamerikan. Staat Süddakota, in den Black Hills (s.d.), mit (1900) 3498 Einw … Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon
deadwood — 1887 in figurative sense of useless person or thing, originally Amer.Eng., from DEAD (Cf. dead) + WOOD (Cf. wood) … Etymology dictionary
