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单词 dead letter
释义
dead letter
noun
uk
/ˌded ˈlet.ər/us
/ˌded ˈlet̬.ɚ/

dead letternoun(MAIL)

[C]
aletterthat cannot bedeliveredto theaddresswritten on it and cannot bereturnedto thepersonwhosentit:
死信，无法投递的信件
the dead-letteroffice死信处理办公室
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Communications - the postal system
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  • delivery
  • direct mail
  • dispatch
  • first class
  • Freepost
  • letterbox
  • mail
  • mail slot
  • pigeonhole
  • postage
  • postbox
  • postmark
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dead letternoun(LAW/AGREEMENT)

[Cusually singular]
alaworagreementthat is nolongereffective:
已失效的法律；形同虚设的协议；空文
Theceasefiretreatywas adeadletterassoonas it wassigned, as neithersideeverhad anyintentionofkeepingto it.由于双方缺乏遵守的诚意，停火协定一经签署就成了废纸一张。
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  • admiralty
  • anti-bribery
  • anti-regulatory
  • anti-sodomy
  • anti-speculative
  • binding
  • edict
  • juridical
  • leash law
  • legislation
  • non-binding
  • non-competition
  • non-regulation
  • protocol
  • retroactive
  • self-regulation
  • sharia
  • the Highway Code
  • the law is an assidiom
  • the Official Secrets Act
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(Definition ofdead letterfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofdead letter

dead letter
For a variety of reasons such orders and decrees often remained adeadletter.
From theCambridge English Corpus
In their legal discussions, the rabbis piled up legal technicalities, reducing the irksome biblical command to adeadletter.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Clearing thedeadletterfile, however, required assigning programmers from separate divisions who had never worked as a team before.
From theCambridge English Corpus
This bill may benefit organized labor, or it may be like many other laws now on the statute books - adeadletter.
From theCambridge English Corpus
In other cases, those that had become adeadletterremained because it was not acceptable to change the laws of the ancestors.
From theCambridge English Corpus
For a decade, however, this constitution was adeadletter.
From theCambridge English Corpus
In many cases, "bad" practices persisted despite the official public announcements, which became no more than adeadletter.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Reforms have ground to a halt and those implemented are basicallydeadletter.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
However, the time has come to move from words to actions so that the legislation in force ceases to be adeadletter.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
I often feel that the legislation which exists at present is very much of adeadletter.
From the
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In a great measure it will be adeadletter.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
Labour was saying that that was adeadletter.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
I think that to do so is likely to bring a law into disrepute, and even, eventually, to make it adeadletter.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
It is not adeadletter; if it is there they will appeal.
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Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
The worst that could happen would be that it would remain adeadletter.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
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