dead season
noun[S]
COMMERCEukusaperiodduring theyearin which very fewpeoplewanttobuyaparticularproductorservice:
It was thedeadseasonand most of thehotelswereclosed.
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单词 | dead season |
释义 | dead season noun[S] COMMERCEukusaperiodduring theyearin which very fewpeoplewanttobuyaparticularproductorservice: It was thedeadseasonand most of thehotelswereclosed. Compare high season low season Examplesofdead seasondead season In most industries except those connected with food, there was a long "morte-saison" ordeadseason, when the enterprises closed down and workers were unpaid. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. This measure aimed to break the stranglehold that many plantation stores held on workers and their communities, especially during thedeadseason. From theCambridge English Corpus Since that, now and then, one is occasionally seen in the samedeadseason. FromProject Gutenberg The book, coming at adeadseasonof literature, was well received. FromProject Gutenberg It was not irksome to him to stay there even in thedeadseason. FromProject Gutenberg They seemed the forgotten skeletons of funeral plumes that had waved over thedeadseason. FromProject Gutenberg For at thatdeadseasonof the year, sweet alison was almost their only joy. FromProject Gutenberg Thedeadseasonhad steeped the vast basement in a sort of torpor, in the pale light falling from the air-holes. FromProject Gutenberg In adeadseasonof politics, his depression was extreme. FromProject Gutenberg Thedeadseasonhad thrown the vast floor into a sort of torpor, in the pale light from the air-holes. FromProject Gutenberg These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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