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: the unrelieved weight of an inert mass
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: a ship's load including the total weight of cargo, fuel, stores, crew, and passengers
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That represented 68% of the vessels when measured by deadweight, and the lowest number of tankers tracked with IG club insurance, surpassing 67% uninsured recorded in July and August.
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Lori Ann Larocco, CNBC, 14 Oct. 2024
Getting rid of deadweight and dealing with unsatisfactory situations will lighten your burden and make room for investing more time in yourself and what brings you joy.
—Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 13 Oct. 2024
Taken together, if VIPER fails to fly, the agency will have spent about $800 million to send literal deadweight to the moon instead.
—Michael Greshko, Scientific American, 24 July 2024
But Iggy Azalea is deadweight on the song, with her blaccent and school-assignment-level rhymes.
—Justin Curto, Vulture, 8 Mar. 2024
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Lori Ann Larocco, CNBC, 14 Oct. 2024
Getting rid of deadweight and dealing with unsatisfactory situations will lighten your burden and make room for investing more time in yourself and what brings you joy.
—Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 13 Oct. 2024
Taken together, if VIPER fails to fly, the agency will have spent about $800 million to send literal deadweight to the moon instead.
—Michael Greshko, Scientific American, 24 July 2024
But Iggy Azalea is deadweight on the song, with her blaccent and school-assignment-level rhymes.
—Justin Curto, Vulture, 8 Mar. 2024
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“Deadweight.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/deadweight. Accessed 23 Dec. 2024.
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deadweight
noun
dead·weight
ˈded-ˈwāt 
: the full weight of a mass that is not moving
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