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noun

total weight without deduction for tare, tret, or waste.

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A lot of people ring in the New Year with vows to lose weight and exercise.
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Yet we keep doing the cleanses, buying the meal replacement bars, and joining Weight Watchers.
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The problem, says UC Davis physiologist and nutritionist Linda Bacon, is that very few people can lose weight and keep it off.
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Then the commercial weight loss behemoths Weight Watchers and Jenny Craig joined this crowded field.
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The rule of law, you see, buckles, bends and sometimes crumbles under the weight of racism, sexism, and classism.
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Of course, considerations of weight have to be taken into account, but the more mould round the roots the better.
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Life is represented as struggling to free herself from the gross earthly forms that cling to her.
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Results are in terms of bulk of precipitate, which must not be confused with percentage by weight.
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The weight percentage can be found by referring to Purdy's tables, given later.
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But for the most part even industry and endowment were powerless against the inertia of custom and the dead-weight of environment.
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British Dictionary definitions for gross weight

gross weight

noun

total weight of an article inclusive of the weight of the container and packaging

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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