Usually means: No further progress is possible.
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We found 16 dictionaries that define the word dead-end:

General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. dead-end: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. dead-end: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. dead-end, dead-end: Collins English Dictionary
  4. dead-end: Vocabulary.com
  5. Dead-End, dead-end: Wordnik
  6. dead-end: Wiktionary
  7. dead-end: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  8. dead-end: Dictionary.com
  9. dead-end: Rhymezone
  10. dead-end: Free Dictionary
  11. dead-end: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. dead-end: Dictionary/thesaurus
  13. dead-end: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dead-end: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dead-end: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Dead-end: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See dead-endedness as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (dead-end)

adjective:  Going nowhere; blocked.
verb:  (US) To come to a dead-end.
verb:  (by extension) To come to nothing; to reach a hopeless situation.
noun:  A road with no exit.
noun:  (by extension, figuratively) A position that offers no hope of progress.

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