dead weight in English

noun
1
the weight of an inert person or thing.
the net was a dead weight on his shoulders

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1. They're all dead weight.

2. To me you're dead weight.

3. 5 Better unchaste than humourless, better dead than a dead weight.

4. ‘Cabooses are dead weight,’ says a vice president of a Western railroad

5. With considerable difficulty, Kirov managed to hoist the photographer to his feet, supporting his dead-weight by his arm-pits.

6. In open raft foundation, masonry or mass concrete Abutments are commonly used ds they provide the dead weight for the stability of such structure.

7. Electronic pressure systems, pressure instruments, including digital pressure calibrators, pneumatic and hydraulic dead weight testers, digital correctors, U-pipe manometers, digital pressure modules, analog pressure instruments