"dead on arrival" meaning in English

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Adjective

Audio: En-au-dead on arrival.ogg
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': 68 28 3 1
  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: 1 95 0 3 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Japanese translations, Terms with Malay translations, Terms with Tagalog translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 38 52 3 6 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 26 69 3 2 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 41 53 4 3 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 42 54 2 2 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 32 60 4 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Japanese translations: 32 60 4 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Malay translations: 29 55 8 8 Disambiguation of Terms with Tagalog translations: 28 60 6 7
  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

Alternative forms

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