英语词汇“dead letter”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	dead letter
释义	dead letter Word forms: plural dead letters countable noun If you say that a law or agreement is a dead letter, you mean that it still exists but people ignore it. No one does anything about it and the law becomes a dead letter. dead letter in British English noun 1. a letter that cannot be delivered or returned because it lacks adequate directions 2. a law or ordinance that is no longer enforced but has not been formally repealed 3. informal anything considered no longer worthy of consideration dead letter in American English 1. a law, practice, etc. no longer enforced or operative but not formally done away with 2. a letter that cannot be delivered or returned, as because of incorrect address and lack of return address Examples of 'dead letter' in a sentence dead letter The law was a dead letter. Garraty, John Arthur The American Nation: A History of the United States to 1877 (1995)
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dead letter