dead weight
or dead·weight
Origin of dead weight
Related Words for deadweight
task, responsibility, weight, albatross, duty, function, business, undertaking, work, project, burden, assignment, effort, exercise, charge, load, pressure, strain, onus, hardshipExamples from the Web for deadweight
Contemporary Examples of deadweight
Access to credit can be a great thing, but it can also become a deadweight around your neck.
Similarly, consider Joel Waldfogel's AER article "The Deadweight Loss of Christmas" (which he later adapted into Scroogenomics).
After all, excessive holiday spending results in what economists refer to a “deadweight loss.”
Historical Examples of deadweight
Yet the power (so defined as horse-power) required to raise a deadweight of 20 lbs.
Unexplored SpainAbel Chapman
Blindly, I felt for the buttons on my dress, and buttoning I sank back in sleep again—the deadweight sleep of utter exhaustion.
Hungry HeartsAnzia Yezierska
It was the sudden release of both the keel and deadweight of the projectile that had caused R19 to shoot up to the surface.
A Sub and a SubmarinePercy F. Westerman
The remainder were freighters, averaging about 5,000 deadweight tons each.
Area Handbook for RomaniaEugene K. Keefe, Donald W. Bernier, Lyle E. Brenneman, William Giloane, James M. Moore, and Neda A. Walpole