deadweight

dead·weight, dead weight /ˈdedweɪt/ noun [singular]

1. something that is very heavy and difficult to carry 沉重的东西，死沉的东西

2. someone or something that prevents you from making progress or being successful 累赘，负担

Examples from the Corpus

deadweight• Almost every staffroom in the land will rejoice again tomorrow at the final lifting of a deadweight on morale and hope.• He's told me what a deadweight you were to him.

From Longman Business Dictionary

deadweightdead·weight /ˈdedweɪt/ adjectiveadjTRANSPORT

deadweight tons or tonnes are a measure of a ship’s weight when it is empty

The maximum size vessel that can use the Panama Canal is a ship of about 65,000 deadweight tons.

单词	deadweight
释义	deadweight dead·weight, dead weight /ˈdedweɪt/ noun [singular] 1. something that is very heavy and difficult to carry 沉重的东西，死沉的东西 2. someone or something that prevents you from making progress or being successful 累赘，负担 Examples from the Corpus deadweight• Almost every staffroom in the land will rejoice again tomorrow at the final lifting of a deadweight on morale and hope.• He's told me what a deadweight you were to him. From Longman Business Dictionary deadweightdead·weight /ˈdedweɪt/ adjectiveadjTRANSPORT deadweight tons or tonnes are a measure of a ship’s weight when it is empty The maximum size vessel that can use the Panama Canal is a ship of about 65,000 deadweight tons.
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