dead wood

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Matters or things that have become unnecessary or otherwise useless; bloat, dead weight. figuratively,uncountable
    — 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 can say it's out of your control.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see dead, wood. uncountable
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