dead-end street

collocation in English

meaningsofdead endandstreet

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dead-end
noun
uk
/ˌded ˈend/us
/ˌded ˈend/
a road that is closed at one end, and does not ...
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street
noun[C]
uk
/striːt/us
/striːt/
a road in a city or town that has buildings that are usually close together along one or ...
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(Definition ofdead-endandstreetfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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They saw instead that racism was adead-endstreet, and that oppressed races-including their own- would inevitably emerge from repression.
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We should not allow ourselves to be manoeuvred into adead-endstreet.
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It pursues thedead-endstreetof control, regulation and bureaucratisation.
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The conservation of energy, by itself, has been described as a slow walk up adead-endstreet, but it has a vital role as part of an overall energy startegy.
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One unnamed dirt road anddead-endstreetruns west of the road within this patch of forest, but farms return once again.
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The street was turned into adead-endstreetas a result of the expressway's construction.
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Sets aside a path for pedestrians on adead-endstreetto access the next public way.
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As early as the 13th century, a cul-de-sac was adead-endstreet(or a dead-end way), a blind alley.
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The main street runs crosswise over the slope and branching off it are a few dead-end streets both uphill and downhill.
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Most houses are located on dead-end streets and had two car garages.
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Public accesses are frequent along dead-end streets bordering the shoreline.
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The architecture is characterized by compact buildings and cobbled dead-end streets.
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These layout models organize a neighbourhood area as a zone of no cut-through traffic by means of loops or dead-end streets.
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