deadheadingn.
1. U.S. colloquial. = deadheadism n. at deadhead n.1 Derivatives; also, the act or practice of being a deadhead.
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society > trade and finance > charges > freedom from charge > [noun] > practice of admitting free of charge
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1873 Newton Kansan 27 Feb. 3/4 Railroads occasionally complain of the deadheading, but no institution suffers so much from it as the press.
1903 G. C. Eggleston First of Hoosiers 263 Edward..objected..to all ‘dead-heading’ of the clergy, and to all ‘discounts’ made to preachers on the ground of their calling.
2. Horticulture. (See quot. 1954.)
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the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > management of plants > [noun] > removal of faded flower heads
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1952 C. E. L. Phillips Small Garden vii. 62 The most elementary pruning is the ‘dead-heading’ of border flowers, by which we remove spent blooms in order to induce new ones.
1954 A. G. L. Hellyer Encycl. Garden Work 198/1 Faded flower heads may sometimes be removed... This..is often known as dead-heading.
1970 C. Lloyd Well-tempered Garden i. 48 The first principle in dead-heading is always to cut back to something definite.
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