"dead hand" meaning in English

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      "form": "dead hands",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
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      "expansion": "dead hand (countable and uncountable, plural dead hands)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2021 July 14, Barry Doe, “Flexi Seasons undermined by complicated calculations”, in RAIL, number 935, page 54:",
          "text": "I'll leave the very bad news to the end as it's outside the industry's control. Yes, the dead hand of the Department for Transport (DfT) still rules!",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A residual undesirable influence from the past."
      ],
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      "links": [
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          "residual"
        ],
        [
          "undesirable",
          "undesirable"
        ],
        [
          "influence",
          "influence"
        ]
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      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Card games",
          "orig": "en:Card games",
          "parents": [
            "Games",
            "Recreation",
            "Human activity",
            "Human behaviour",
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
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          "parents": [],
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A hand that is dealt but not used during a card game."
      ],
      "id": "en-dead_hand-en-noun-~RZcHFld",
      "links": [
        [
          "card game",
          "card game"
        ],
        [
          "hand",
          "hand"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(card games) A hand that is dealt but not used during a card game."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "_dis1": "0 100",
          "word": "Dead Hand"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "card-games",
        "games"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "dead hand"
}

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    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns",
    "English uncountable nouns",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "dead hands",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
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      "expansion": "dead hand (countable and uncountable, plural dead hands)",
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  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "Dead Hand"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
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      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2021 July 14, Barry Doe, “Flexi Seasons undermined by complicated calculations”, in RAIL, number 935, page 54:",
          "text": "I'll leave the very bad news to the end as it's outside the industry's control. Yes, the dead hand of the Department for Transport (DfT) still rules!",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A residual undesirable influence from the past."
      ],
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          "residual"
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          "undesirable"
        ],
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          "influence"
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        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A hand that is dealt but not used during a card game."
      ],
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          "card game"
        ],
        [
          "hand",
          "hand"
        ]
      ],
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        "(card games) A hand that is dealt but not used during a card game."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ],
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        "card-games",
        "games"
      ]
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  "word": "dead hand"
}