dead letter in the Oxford-Paravia Italian Dictionary

Translations for dead letter in the English»Italian Dictionary

I.letter [Brit ˈlɛtə, Am ˈlɛdər] N

III.letter [Brit ˈlɛtə, Am ˈlɛdər] VB trans

IV.letter [Brit ˈlɛtə, Am ˈlɛdər] VB intr Am UNIV

I.dead [Brit dɛd, Am dɛd] ADJ

1. dead (no longer living):

drop dead! inf

II.dead [Brit dɛd, Am dɛd] N

III.dead [Brit dɛd, Am dɛd] ADV (absolutely, completely)

dead drunk inf
dead tired inf
I was dead scared! inf
you're dead on! Am inf

dead letter in the PONS Dictionary

Translations for dead letter in the English»Italian Dictionary

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

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By the early nineteenth century these laws were a dead letter.
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Being internal departments within postal administrations, little information about the dead letter office function has ever been made public.
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However, this committee met only three times without any major impact, and rapidly became a dead letter even before all other parties were banned.
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The central government's power to override the states, far from being a dead letter, became a heavy hand, casting a long shadow on centre-state relations.
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Other former names include dead letter branch and dead parcel branch.
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I retired in 2000 and the new commission had limited interest in the subject, so the report became a dead letter.
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The blasphemy law is now a dead letter.
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Apparently this enactment remained a dead letter.
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But, in practice, these provisions have remained dead letter.
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He's a dead letter himself, pale, purposeless, able to convey only his former impulse toward a purpose.
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