DEAD-END


Meaning of DEAD-END in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ˈdedˈend ]

{v.} To not continue normally but end in a closure (said of streets). * /Our street dead-ends on the lake./

{n.} A street closed at one end; a situation that leads nowhere. * /Jim drove into a dead-end street and had to back out./ * /Mary was in a dead-end job./

Dictionary of English idioms .      Словарь английских идиом.