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- noun The 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. - noun A
useless , usuallyencumbering factor . - adjective sports, billiards, snooker, pool Describes a shot with
exact , precisepace to leave the balls in the perfect position. Usually just touching acushion or very close to another ball.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Purging of the deadweight is so essential for the spirit.
Women Grow Business » Entrepreneurs and Outdated Ideas: How to Make Room for Your Future 2009
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(That is, you would see a decrease in deadweight loss.)
The Volokh Conspiracy » Ideology and Economic Ignorance 2010
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They just add to market inefficiencies, impede normal economic behaviour (decreasing freedom) and irretrievably lower consumption to below Pareto optimal levels (resulting in deadweight loss).
Immigration Reform, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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(That is, you would see a decrease in deadweight loss.)
The Volokh Conspiracy » Ideology and Economic Ignorance 2010
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I think those two players that you call deadweight start with an F and a B right?
News - chicagotribune.com Chicago Tribune reporter By 2012
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None of the associates asked ML to make a long-term deadweight lateral partner hiring decision.
Above the Law Elie Mystal 2010
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None of the associates asked ML to make a long-term deadweight lateral partner hiring decision.
Above the Law 2010
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That’s maybe $50 million — maybe more — in deadweight losses related to just one show.
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By the same token the term deadweight loss is a misleading term.
Paul Krugman Hearts Medicare, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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These benefits can be a simple reduction of what economists call "deadweight loss."
Slate Articles Matthew Yglesias 2012
Related Words
synonyms (69)
Words with the same meaning
- avoirdupois
- bale
- beef
- beefiness
- burden
- burdening
- burthen
- cargo
- charge
- charging
- cross
- cumber
- cumbrance
- difficulty
- disadvantage
- drag
- duty
- embarrassment
- encumbrance
- fatness
- freight
- gravity
- gross weight
- hamper
- handicap
- heaviness
- heft
- heftiness
- impediment
- impedimenta
- imposition
- inconvenience
- incubus
- incumbency
- lading
- liveweight
- load
- loading
- lumber
- millstone
- neat weight
- net
- net weight
- onus
- oppression
- overbalance
- overload
- overtaxing
- overweight
- overweighting
- pack
- penalty
- ponderability
- ponderosity
- ponderousness
- poundage
- pressure
- saddling
- superincumbency
- surcharge
- task
- tax
- taxing
- tonnage
- trouble
- underweight
- weight
- weightiness
- white elephant
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