dead letter in the Oxford Spanish Dictionary

Translations for dead letter in the Spanish»English Dictionary

Translations for dead letter in the English»Spanish Dictionary

I.letter [Am ˈlɛdər, Brit ˈlɛtə] N

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

I.dead [Am dɛd, Brit dɛd] ADJ

1. dead (no longer alive):

II.dead [Am dɛd, Brit dɛd] ADV

III.dead [Am dɛd, Brit dɛd] N

See also body

body <pl bodies> [Am ˈbɑdi, Brit ˈbɒdi] N

dead letter in the PONS Dictionary

Translations for dead letter in the English»Spanish Dictionary

letter [ˈletəʳ, Am ˈlet̬ɚ] N

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But to be honest that is neither here nor there because the constitution is unfortunately a dead letter.
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To the contrary, it is not a dead letter.
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Let us not, if we can avoid it, fall victim to the dead letter of the law.
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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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Dead letter queues can be created for looking at messages which timed out or failed for other reasons.
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This is not to say that infringement of the structure, sequence and organization is a dead letter.
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However, by this ruling one aspect seems to have become a dead letter law.
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Such mail may otherwise become dead letter mail.
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In practice the socialist objective was a dead letter.
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But the estates felt that the maintenance of their liberties demanded more substantial guarantees than the dead letter of ancient laws.
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