We found 17 dictionaries that define the word dead wood:

General (9 matching dictionaries)

1. dead-wood: Wordnik
2. dead wood: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
3. dead wood: Wiktionary
4. dead wood: Dictionary.com
5. Dead wood (disambiguation), Dead wood: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
6. dead wood: TheFreeDictionary.com
7. dead wood: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)

8. Dead wood: bizterms.net

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

9. dead wood: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)

10. dead wood: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)

11. dead wood: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)

12. Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

13. Dead wood: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)

14. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
15. Dead wood: Sports Definitions

Definitions from Wiktionary (dead wood) ▸ noun:  (figuratively) Matters or things that have become unnecessary or otherwise useless; bloat, dead weight. ▸ noun:  Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see dead, wood. Similar: dead weight, deadwood, deadweight, dead donkey, dead hand, excess baggage, deadload, blivet, dead-leg, dead letter, more... Opposite: live wood, healthy wood, green wood Adjectives: didine, weest, waste, stale, scorched earth, voyd, castaway, dead, extinct, zero, broken-down ▸ Words similar to dead wood ▸ Usage examples for dead wood ▸ Idioms related to dead wood ▸ Wikipedia articles (New!) ▸ Words that often appear near dead wood ▸ Rhymes of dead wood ▸ Invented words related to dead wood