"dead on arrival" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [English]

Audio: En-au-dead on arrival.ogg [Australia]
Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} dead on arrival (not comparable)
  1. (of a patient) Found to be dead upon arriving at hospital. Tags: not-comparable Translations (dead when arriving at hospital): giunto cadavere (Italian), 到着時死亡 (tōchaku-ji shibō) (Japanese), mati ketika tiba (Malay), patay sa pagdating (Tagalog)
    Sense id: en-dead_on_arrival-en-adj-Y7kxMdRY Disambiguation of 'dead when arriving at hospital': 72 24 3 2
  2. Found dead at a scene, upon the arrival of an emergency medical service (EMS) or the police. Tags: not-comparable Categories (topical): Death Synonyms: DOA
    Sense id: en-dead_on_arrival-en-adj-ogWAKoyD Disambiguation of Death: 18 78 1 3 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 38 52 3 7 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 29 46 12 13 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 31 50 7 13
  3. (slang) Of a new item: received broken. Tags: not-comparable, slang
    Sense id: en-dead_on_arrival-en-adj-rMVipKDU
  4. (slang) Being a failure from the start, a nonstarter. Tags: not-comparable, slang
    Sense id: en-dead_on_arrival-en-adj-56h2HYhe

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