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dead wood

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  1. figuratively, uncountable Matters or things that have become unnecessary or otherwise useless; bloat, dead weight. Everybody knows that when you have a layoff, you use it as chance to get rid of the people you wanted to get rid of anyway, but couldn't document or hadn't bothered documenting as bad employees […]. If you don't have much dead wood, you hope they make you use a senioentrity list, because then you ca
  2. uncountable Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see dead, wood.

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noun (figuratively) matters or things that have become unnecessary or otherwise useless

Françaisbois mort

noun (literally) wood that is dead

Françaisbois mort

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@misc{dead_wood_2026,
  title = {dead wood},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/dead%20wood},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}