Usually means: Unproductive elements within an organization.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. Deadwood, deadwood: Merriam-Webster
  2. Deadwood, deadwood, deadwood: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. deadwood: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. deadwood: Collins English Dictionary
  5. deadwood: Vocabulary.com
  6. Deadwood, deadwood: Wordnik
  7. Deadwood, deadwood: Wiktionary
  8. deadwood: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. deadwood: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. deadwood: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Deadwood, deadwood: Dictionary.com
  12. deadwood: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Deadwood (Deadwood episode), Deadwood (Dirty Pretty Things song), Deadwood (TV series), Deadwood (Toni Braxton song), Deadwood (disambiguation), Deadwood (episode), Deadwood (game), Deadwood (season 2), Deadwood (series), Deadwood (shipbuilding), Deadwood: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Deadwood: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. deadwood: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. deadwood: Rhymezone
  17. Deadwood: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. deadwood: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. deadwood: FreeDictionary.org
  20. deadwood: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  21. deadwood: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. deadwood: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. deadwood: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Deadwood (disambiguation), Deadwood: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. deadwood: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. deadwood, deadwood: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. deadwood: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Deadwood)

noun:  Dead branches or wood on a tree, or coarse woody debris.
noun:  People or things judged to be superfluous to an organization or project.
noun:  Money not realized by exiting a winning pump trade too early.
noun:  (bowling) Pins that have fallen and have not been cleared from the alley.
noun:  (nautical) Vertical planks between the keel and the sternpost that act as reinforcement.
noun:  (by extension) Structural material on a load-carrying vehicle that reduces the available cargo space.
noun:  (rummy) Cards in a hand that do not contribute to sets and which are usually counted as points against the player holding the hand.
noun:  (poker) Cards that have been discarded.
noun:  A hamlet in the County of Northern Lights, Alberta, Canada.
noun:  A ghost town in British Columbia, Canada.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Butte County, California, United States.
noun:  A ghost town in Placer County, California, United States.
noun:  A ghost town in Siskiyou County, California, United States.
noun:  A ghost town in Trinity County, California, United States.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Tuolumne County, California, United States.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Lane County, Oregon, United States.
noun:  A city, the county seat of Lawrence County, South Dakota, United States.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Panola County, Texas, United States.

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