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dead weight
noun
the heavy, unrelieved weight of anything inert.
The dead weight of the bear's body was over 300 pounds.
a heavy or oppressive burden or responsibility.
the weight of a railroad car, truck, etc., as distinct from its load or contents.
dead weight
noun
a heavy weight or load
an oppressive burden; encumbrance
the difference between the loaded and the unloaded weights of a ship
another name for dead load
(in shipping) freight chargeable by weight rather than by bulk
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of dead weight1
Idioms and Phrases
Example Sentences
The text of the measure was unenforceable, but the dead words remained in the California Constitution, a dead weight on our collective conscience.
“Every single person who saw Joe Biden knew that he wasn’t capable of doing the job. And for three years, they said nothing until he became political dead weight.”
Now he had been deemed dead weight in Italy, too.
It felt like the old donkey had gone slack and left the entirety of his dead weight for me to drag.
That’s because when he was in contact with the rock his legs were worse than dead weight.
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