Definition & Meaning | English word DEADHEADING

Definitions of DEADHEADING

1. The removal of dead flowers from a plant in order to encourage the growth of new ones, and to prevent the production of seeds.
2. The driving of an unladen vehicle, such as a bus with no passengers, in order to take it from one place to another.
3. inflection of deadhead

Examples of Using DEADHEADING in a Sentence

• state of Louisiana, served as a hospital physician in Georgia, and impersonated a Pan American World Airways pilot who logged over two million air miles by deadheading.
• The rosarian, Abedalhadi Mousa, is responsible for many daily activities of maintenance including deadheading, or clipping off the blackened and dried ends of the rose bushes with his pruning shears and throwing them into a large plastic bin.
• The term deadheading or jumpseating also applies to the practice of allowing employees of a common carrier to travel in a vehicle as a non-revenue passenger.

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