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dead money
noun
Chips that a player who has since folded has put into the pot.
Exact(60)
"It's dead money, anyway," he said lamely.
Just consider that renting is dead money.
"The Magic Mountain is full of dead money.
Buying shares now, she said, gives you "dead money".
The city's investments in subway properties, something like $250,000,000 is dead money.
"Dead money?" She waved at a friend who was entering the tavern.
The volatile stock market has been dead money for more than a decade.
"Everyone is saying this sector is dead money," said Roger Freeman, an analyst with Barclays Capital.
Mr. Baer was determined not to be "dead money," the term pros bestow on weak players.
The team saves $2.275 million by releasing McGee, with $2.4 million in dead money.
But housing benefit pumped into the private rented sector is also dead money.
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