death march
noun1
A forced movement of people, on foot, in such circumstances that many die during the journey.
- the Bataan Death March
2
Management A project that requires a stretch of unsustainable overwork, or whose participants feel it is destined to fail.
3
Synonym of dead march (“mournful music for a funeral etc.”).
- Jacob Scheele was led to the gallows as a band played a death march.2015, Daniel Allen Hearn, Legal Executions in New England, page 282:
- Related terms
- forced march