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living dead

In business, start-up companies that reach a plateau of growth but fail to achieve IPO. These companies, likened to the zombies in horror stories who are destined to roam the earth without redemption, are referred to as the living dead. The term is particularly used with reference to dotcom start-ups.
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But there were the two weeks I lost, with influenza, and the one week from a confounded pleurisy, so that I emerged from that place of the living dead with but one hundred and fifty-one dollars and fifty cents.
Michael, Brother of Jerry by London, Jack View in context
he becomes a living dead man and has no time to amuse himself with the trap-doors.
The Phantom of the Opera by Leroux, Gaston View in context
Old men were there, whose eyes were dim and senses failing--grandmothers, who might have died ten years ago, and still been old--the deaf, the blind, the lame, the palsied, the living dead in many shapes and forms, to see the closing of that early grave.
The Old Curiosity Shop by Dickens, Charles View in context
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