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Definition of: dead letter
1. A letter which, after lying undelivered for a certain length of time, has been sent to the dead–letter office, the department of the general post office where unclaimed letters are examined and returned to their writers or destroyed.
2. Something, as a law, that exists in verbal form, but is not enforced or active.
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