English Dictionary

deadhead

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈdɛdhɛd/

動詞

他動詞 自動詞

(transitive) To admit to a performance without charge. / (intransitive) To travel as a deadhead, or non-paying passenger. / (transitive, intransitive) To drive an empty vehicle.

日本語の意味

公演やイベントにおいて、無料で参加させる（客に対して料金を免除する） / 無賃で乗車する、または乗り合わせる / 空車状態の車両を運転する、または走行させる

To fill empty seats, the theater manager decided to deadhead critics and bloggers into the performance.

空席を埋めるために、劇場の支配人は評論家とブロガーを無料で公演に入場させることにした。

意味（1）

(transitive) To admit to a performance without charge.

[…] the puffing system in criticism, whereby newspaper people were deadheaded in exchange for complimentary notices.

意味（2）

(intransitive) To travel as a deadhead, or non-paying passenger.

意味（3）

(transitive, intransitive) To drive an empty vehicle.

Kit had fallen into conversation with a footplate man who was deadheading back out to Samarkand, where he lived with his wife and children.

意味（4）

(transitive) To send (a person or message) for free.

Washington suggested that she get some old friend of the family to come with her, and said the Senator would “deadhead” him home again as soon as he had grown tired, of the sights of the capital.

意味（5）

(transitive) To remove spent or dead blossoms from a plant.

If you deadhead your roses regularly, they will bloom all season.

deadheads （ present singular third-person ）

deadheading （ participle present ）

deadheaded （ participle past ）

deadheaded （ past ）