dead weight

1. (countable, uncountable)Unremitting heavy weight that does not move.

   Totgewicht

   a heavy motionless weight

2. (countable, uncountable)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.

3. (countable, uncountable)A dead load.

4. (countable, figuratively, uncountable)That which is useless or excess; that which slows something down.

   She wants to shed the dead weight of so many stacks of old clutter.

   балла́стballást

5. (countable, uncountable)The total (unpowered) weight of a train to be propelled (or hauled) by the locomotive; another locomotive being hauled dead as part of the train is a dead weight.

1. The new employee is dead weight.

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2. The extra luggage was a dead weight.

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