death march
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English
[edit]Noun
[edit]death march (plural death marches)
- A forced movement of people, on foot, in such circumstances that many die during the journey.
- (management) A project that requires a stretch of unsustainable overwork, or whose participants feel it is destined to fail.
- Synonym of dead march (“mournful music for a funeral etc.”)
- 2015, Daniel Allen Hearn, Legal Executions in New England, page 282:
- Jacob Scheele was led to the gallows as a band played a death march.
Translations
[edit]forced movement of people in such circumstances that many die during the journey
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