deadweight

deadweight (plural deadweights)

1. Alternative form of dead weight.
   • 1960 April, “New Bridge for Modernisation in Manchester”, in Railway Magazine, page 248:

     The bridge has been designed for a total dead-cum-live load of 5,750 tons, the deadweight of the new structure excluding station buildings and permanent way being some 3,000 tons.

• “deadweight”, in Merriam-Webster.com Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “deadweight” in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Longman.

Unadapted borrowing from English deadweight.

deadweight n (uncountable)

1. deadweight