The word "deadweight" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to something or someone that is an unwanted burden or unnecessary impediment, especially when they cannot be easily removed or discarded. For example, “The deadweight of the government’s regulations made it difficult for small businesses to compete.”.
There are no soliloquies on the pain of letting go of your children or the deadweight crunch of realising you've valued all the wrong things for your first seven decades, but Silverville's slow teasing-out of life stories worked like voodoo; it got me in the gut.
Remember, too, that Japan has no underclass, no big drug problem and no deadweight like eastern Germany or southern Italy to drag it down.So cheer up?
JAMES SUROWIECKI is complaining about the deadweight loss of Christmas:An economist might suggest that the solution is to abandon the pretense and simply start exchanging small piles of money.
If relief were given on health-insurance premiums, most of the benefits would be "deadweight", going to those who would have insured themselves privately anyway.
We get a lot of straight-up destruction of wealth and welfare from deadweight loss, negative-sum transfers, and stupid wars.
A tax would allow us to dispense with the whole secondary and derivatives market that is a deadweight loss to consumers, and the whole reason for IETA's existence.The Waxman-Markey bill is a 932-page monstrosity and full of pork.
If the flight ban had lasted longer, such goods would have had to be shipped, potentially creating a long-term deadweight cost in the form of higher inventory levels.
(Project Syndicate, via Mark Thoma Joel Waldfogell continues to remind us of the deadweight loss of Christmas.
This would seem to indicate that the deadweight loss problem is only going to get worse, particularly since in the age of specialisation, none of us knows how to make anything except money anymore.
Its capacity, measured in "deadweight tonnage" (the maximum weight of cargo, crew and fuel) was almost 896m at the start of 2005.In this section Overview Output, demand and jobs Prices and wages Seaborne trade Money and interest rates The Economist commodity price index Stockmarkets Trade, exchange rates and budgets Platinum and palladium Reprints.
In addition, each of Belgium's assorted ministers has a cabinet of six or ten advisers, a deadweight of paper-pushers that Mr Verhofstadt will eagerly be seeking to reduce with his reform of the public service.The process of federalisation still has some modest way to go, says Mr Verhofstadt.
