"deadheader" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1992, George Schenk, Gardening With Friends, page 210:",
          "text": "Instead, she is a weeder, actually for enjoyment (\"That's when I get some of my best thinking done\"), a keen harvester of flowers for the house, and a merciless deadheader of perennials in the autumn.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1998, Tracy DiSabato-Aust, The Well-tended Perennial Garden: Planting & Pruning Techniques, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Take care if deadheading in the evening when the flowers have just folded down as bees seem to enjoy resting in them at this time and may give the deadheader a stinging surprise.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002, Miss Read, Gossip from Thrush Green, →ISBN:",
          "text": "I'm just the deadheader of roses and pansies—a very lowly assistant gardener.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "One who removes the dead remains of blossoms from plants."
      ],
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1947, The New Republic - Volume 117, Part 1, page 18:",
          "text": "There's company rules against riders. I told him tonight he's gonna have a deadheader; all he wanted to know was you gonna have coffee money.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2001, Kathy Reichs, Fatal Voyage: A Novel, →ISBN, page 98:",
          "text": "A septuagenarian deadheader? A senior citizen stowaway? Unlikely.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Doug Morris, From the Flight Deck: Plane Talk and Sky Science, →ISBN, page 7:",
          "text": "When aircraft are swapped, a pilot might travel as a deadheader on the flight he or she was originally scheduled to fly.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A non-paying passenger."
      ],
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    },
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1995, Journal of American Indian Education - Volumes 35-37, page 53:",
          "text": "From Granite City, I think it was, we rode a deadheader to Minneapolis.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1988, Jane Stern, Michael Stern, A taste of America, →ISBN, page 41:",
          "text": "Next to the cash register, a bulletin board was thumbtacked with notes from deadheaders who needed loads heading west, and shippers looking for a reefer (refrigerated truck) going down to Florida.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1999, Dana Stabenow, Hunter's Moon, →ISBN, page 4:",
          "text": "It had been the deteriorating remains of a defunct gold mine when George Perry stumbled across it on a deadheader back from a freight trip/visit to a girlfriend in McGrath in June about twelve years back.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Ian McDonald, Ares Express, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Any road, they throw me off at High Plains and then I hitch a ride on some shit deadheader across Chryse because Mr Engineer he's expecting to ride the whole rig with me hanging off.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A scheduled trip to move a vehicle that has no cargo and no passengers."
      ],
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    },
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      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1959, J. J. Wuerthner, The businessman's guide to practical politics, page 143:",
          "text": "...were always the \"infamous machine\" or the \"bosses' candidate\" or the \"payroll deadheaders and racketeers.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Matthew L. Basso, Meet Joe Copper, →ISBN:",
          "text": "If before the war better-skilled smeltermen had little recourse against deadheaders, during the war they joined with foremen, itself a telling alliance, in using patriotic expectations to discipline those they believed were illegitimate deadheaders.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "One who does not work very hard at his or her job."
      ],
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    },
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      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1989, The American Racing Pigeon News - Volume 105, page 26:",
          "text": "Don does this to catch \"Deadheaders\" - birds which circle the wrong way and won't leave the release site. By his precise records, Don can remove deadheaders by a process of elimination.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A racing pigeon that will not leave when released."
      ],
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    }
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  "word": "deadheader"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1992, George Schenk, Gardening With Friends, page 210:",
          "text": "Instead, she is a weeder, actually for enjoyment (\"That's when I get some of my best thinking done\"), a keen harvester of flowers for the house, and a merciless deadheader of perennials in the autumn.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1998, Tracy DiSabato-Aust, The Well-tended Perennial Garden: Planting & Pruning Techniques, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Take care if deadheading in the evening when the flowers have just folded down as bees seem to enjoy resting in them at this time and may give the deadheader a stinging surprise.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002, Miss Read, Gossip from Thrush Green, →ISBN:",
          "text": "I'm just the deadheader of roses and pansies—a very lowly assistant gardener.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "One who removes the dead remains of blossoms from plants."
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1947, The New Republic - Volume 117, Part 1, page 18:",
          "text": "There's company rules against riders. I told him tonight he's gonna have a deadheader; all he wanted to know was you gonna have coffee money.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2001, Kathy Reichs, Fatal Voyage: A Novel, →ISBN, page 98:",
          "text": "A septuagenarian deadheader? A senior citizen stowaway? Unlikely.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Doug Morris, From the Flight Deck: Plane Talk and Sky Science, →ISBN, page 7:",
          "text": "When aircraft are swapped, a pilot might travel as a deadheader on the flight he or she was originally scheduled to fly.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A non-paying passenger."
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1995, Journal of American Indian Education - Volumes 35-37, page 53:",
          "text": "From Granite City, I think it was, we rode a deadheader to Minneapolis.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1988, Jane Stern, Michael Stern, A taste of America, →ISBN, page 41:",
          "text": "Next to the cash register, a bulletin board was thumbtacked with notes from deadheaders who needed loads heading west, and shippers looking for a reefer (refrigerated truck) going down to Florida.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1999, Dana Stabenow, Hunter's Moon, →ISBN, page 4:",
          "text": "It had been the deteriorating remains of a defunct gold mine when George Perry stumbled across it on a deadheader back from a freight trip/visit to a girlfriend in McGrath in June about twelve years back.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Ian McDonald, Ares Express, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Any road, they throw me off at High Plains and then I hitch a ride on some shit deadheader across Chryse because Mr Engineer he's expecting to ride the whole rig with me hanging off.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A scheduled trip to move a vehicle that has no cargo and no passengers."
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1959, J. J. Wuerthner, The businessman's guide to practical politics, page 143:",
          "text": "...were always the \"infamous machine\" or the \"bosses' candidate\" or the \"payroll deadheaders and racketeers.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Matthew L. Basso, Meet Joe Copper, →ISBN:",
          "text": "If before the war better-skilled smeltermen had little recourse against deadheaders, during the war they joined with foremen, itself a telling alliance, in using patriotic expectations to discipline those they believed were illegitimate deadheaders.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "One who does not work very hard at his or her job."
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1989, The American Racing Pigeon News - Volume 105, page 26:",
          "text": "Don does this to catch \"Deadheaders\" - birds which circle the wrong way and won't leave the release site. By his precise records, Don can remove deadheaders by a process of elimination.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A racing pigeon that will not leave when released."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "deadheader"
}