death march

death march

English

Noun

death march (plural death marches)

1. A forced movement of people, on foot, in such circumstances that many die during the journey.

   the Bataan Death March

2. (project 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.”)
   • 2015, Daniel Allen Hearn, Legal Executions in New England (page 282)

     Jacob Scheele was led to the gallows as a band played a death march.

Translations

forced movement of people in such circumstances that many die during the journey

Czech: pochod smrti m Danish: dødsmarch c Dutch: dodenmars (nl) m Finnish: kuolemanmarssi French: marche de la mort f German: Todesmarsch (de) m Japanese: 死の行進 (shi no kōshin), 死の行軍 (shi no kōgun) Polish: marsz śmierci m Russian: ма́рш сме́рти m (márš smérti) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: марш смрти m Roman: marš smrti m Tagalog: martsa ng kamatayan

See also

• forced march