Usually means: Contradictory demands ensure inevitable failure.
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General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. double bind: Merriam-Webster
  2. double bind: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. double bind: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. double bind: Collins English Dictionary
  5. double bind: Vocabulary.com
  6. double-bind: Wordnik
  7. double bind: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. double bind: Wiktionary
  9. double bind: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. double bind: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. double bind: Dictionary.com
  12. Double Bind, Double bind: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. double bind: Rhymezone
  14. double bind: FreeDictionary.org
  15. double bind: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. double bind: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. double bind: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Double Bind: Cybernetics and Systems

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. double bind: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Terms in the field of Psychiatry and Neurology (No longer online)
  5. double-bind, double bind: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (double bind)

noun:  A dilemma in which someone receives contradictory instructions and cannot act on either.

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