deadweight tonnage

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noun Nautical.

the capacity in long tons of cargo, passengers, fuel, stores, etc. (deadweight tons ), of a vessel: the difference between the loaded and light displacement tonnage of the vessel.

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Also called deadweight capacity.

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How to use deadweight tonnage in a sentence

It was a key reason why the half million U.S. soldiers and massive bomb tonnage could not achieve decisive military victory.
Going Back to Vietnam Is Sometimes Amusing, Often Fraught, and Always Surreal|Jeff Greenfield|March 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST
On the negative side, the sheer tonnage of opinions can overwhelm and cause a degree of amnesia.
The Best Columns of the Year|John Avlon|December 31, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Access to credit can be a great thing, but it can also become a deadweight around your neck.
Dirty Debt, Done Dirt Cheap|Nick Gillespie|October 9, 2013|DAILY BEAST
All those presents that no one wants represent huge deadweight loss.
How Terrible Is Christmas?|Megan McArdle|December 26, 2012|DAILY BEAST

Similarly, consider Joel Waldfogel's AER article "The Deadweight Loss of Christmas" (which he later adapted into Scroogenomics).
How Terrible Is Christmas?|Megan McArdle|December 26, 2012|DAILY BEAST
The tonnage entered in Philippine ports shows a rapid annual increase in five years.
The Philippine Islands|John Foreman
Old and new measurements, tonnage, time allowances and movable ballast, are all a sealed book to me.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume II (of 3)|Charles James Wills
These vessels, indeed, were of no considerable tonnage; but I confess myself at a loss to guess their object.
Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808|Lt-Col. Pinkney
This was owing to there still being a tonnage class, A, B and C, the new rating and the length classes.
Yachting Vol. 2|Various.
The object of handicaps is to get sport amongst craft of varied tonnage, class, and build, by giving time allowance.
Yachting Vol. 2|Various.