Usually means: Mail undeliverable, unclaimed, or abandoned.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word dead letter:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. dead letter: Merriam-Webster
  2. dead letter: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dead letter: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dead letter: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dead letter: Vocabulary.com
  6. dead-letter, dead letter: Wordnik
  7. dead letter: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. dead letter: Wiktionary
  9. dead letter: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. dead letter: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Dead letter, dead-letter, dead letter: Dictionary.com
  12. Dead letter, The Dead Letter: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. dead letter: Rhymezone
  14. DEAD LETTER: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  15. Dead Letter: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  16. dead letter: FreeDictionary.org
  17. dead letter: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. dead letter: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. dead letter: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. dead letter: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dead letter: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dead letter: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dead letter: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (dead letter)

noun:  An item of mail that cannot be delivered to its intended recipient; after some time it is returned to the sender, or destroyed.
noun:  A law or other measure that is no longer enforced.
noun:  (by extension) Anything that has lost its authority or influence despite still being in existence or formally in force.

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