Meaning of dead wood | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Matters or things that have become unnecessary or otherwise useless; bloat, dead weight.
   figuratively, uncountable
2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see dead, wood.
   uncountable

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Examples

“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.”

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