Associations to the word «Deadwood»

Wiktionary

DEADWOOD, noun. Coarse woody debris
DEADWOOD, noun. People judged to be superfluous to an organization or project
DEADWOOD, noun. Money not realized by exiting a winning pump trade too early

Dictionary definition

DEADWOOD, noun. A branch or a part of a tree that is dead.
DEADWOOD, noun. Someone or something that is unwanted and unneeded.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne