dead letter in English

noun

1

a letter that is undeliverable and unreturnable, typically one with an incorrect address.

Apparently they are working at the U.S. Post Office, in the dead letter department.

2

a law or treaty that has not been repealed but is ineffectual or defunct in practice.

Why should we develop the common law to make the statute a dead letter ?

noun

non-issue

Use "dead letter" in a sentence

1. This law has a dead letter.

2. Greek was a dead letter to him.

3. The will itself is made a dead letter.

4. It is regrettable that our appeal a dead letter.

5. It is regrettable that our appeal remained a dead letter.

6. An arts education is a dead letter for many students.

7. The treaty had been a dead letter for many years.

8. In our department, this rule has become a dead letter.

9. I take messages and leave them in a dead letter box.

10. This is a dead letter, so I can not deliver it.

11. The message is placed in the sending queue manager's Dead Letter Queue.

12. For the computer queues instance,[Sentencedict.com] this represents the dead letter queue.

13. No one does anything about it and the law becomes a dead letter.

14. The trigger monitor will place rejected trigger messages onto the dead letter queue (DLQ).

15. Time was when monitoring a suspected dead - letter box involved laborious work by humans.

16. Next,[Sentencedict] enter the name of the default Dead Letter Queue which is SYSTEM.DEAD.LETTER.QUEUE.

17. Rules and regulations, once set up, should not be turned into a dead letter.

18. However, newly created queue managers are not configured to use a dead letter queue.

19. It is considered a best practice for each queue manager to have a dead letter queue.

20. Laws are a dead letter without courts to expound and define their true meaning and operation.

21. The anonymous parcel was not collected and was returned to the dead letter office in Libourne.

22. Theoretical reasoning is a dead letter to the child unless it is closely anchored to practical issues.

23. Indeed, without a possibility to challenge price adjustments, the requirement of reasonableness would remain a dead letter.

24. The fact that the postwar treaty had been a dead letter for many years did not worry either party.

25. If the message's TTL had already expired at this point, then the message may appear in the sender's Dead Letter Queue.

26. The dead letter queue is used by the queue manager and Java classes to hold messages that cannot be delivered to their intended destination.

27. The ceasefire treaty was a dead letter as soon as it was signed, as neither side ever had any intention of keeping to it.

28. Although an object named SYSTEM.DEAD.LETTER.QUEUE exists, it is necessary to alter the queue manager's DEADQ attribute with the name of the dead letter queue in order to enable it.