what is dead weight
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the weight of an inert person or thing.
"he had to struggle while carrying forty-five pounds of deadweight on his back"
a heavy or oppressive burden.
"she'd drag my father's dead weight from wherever he'd fallen"
the total weight of cargo, stores, etc. which a ship carries or can carry.
"this will produce a maximum dead weight of 72,350 tons"
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