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a dead-end job
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a job with no chance of promotion or of learning anything new
Hyphenated before a noun: 'a dead-end job'. You can also say 'This job is a dead end.'
In context
She quit her dead-end job at the call centre and went back to university.
I don't want to spend ten years in a dead-end job just because it's safe.
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