Deadweight

noun

Word Frequency: 0.3

Definitions

1.nounUnremitting heavy weight that does not move.

2.nounThe largest weight of cargo a ship is able to carry; i.e, the weight of a ship when fully loaded minus its weight when empty.

3.nounDead load.

4.nounThat which is useless or excess; that which slows something down.

"She wants to shed the dead weight of so many stacks of old clutter."

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