Sentence examples for the deadweight from inspiring English sources
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.
His presidency would be like Cheney without the deadweight.
Neither seems capable of supporting the deadweight for too much longer.
Furthermore, the tax credit itself doubles the deadweight costs of the corn production subsidies.
There are many oft-discussed reasons for this; the most commonly aired involve the deadweight loss from taxation.
Increasing the overall coverage to 40 or 50 percent could relieve its balance sheet of the deadweight.
The literary revolution was, however, a single aspect of a broader campaign directed against the deadweight of the traditional values.
(Project Syndicate, via Mark Thoma Joel Waldfogell continues to remind us of the deadweight loss of Christmas.
William Hale, a British engineer, invented a method of successfully eliminating the deadweight of the flight-stabilizing guide stick.
We have investigated the effect of the loading frame stiffness on the deadweight force machine loadcell interaction.
He is such a bizarre choice because he's actually the deadweight holding back what increasingly appears to be a monarchist revival.
As Peter C. Marzio noted in his biography of Goldberg, "Rube labored through thousands of tiresome calculations to determine the deadweight load for make-believe buildings and mines.
