deadweight
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Measured another way: Canada in 2016 ranked sixth globally in total deadweight tonnage at its ports; in 2023, Canada ranked 23rd.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026
Software as a service, or SaaS, was once the market’s hottest sector, but it’s been a deadweight for much of the last month.
From Barron's • Feb. 28, 2026
This pattern continues in the world of international trade law, which reduces the deadweight losses from tariff and nontariff barriers to facilitate international commerce.
From Slate • Jan. 6, 2025
Higher yields have been a deadweight for gold, which pays no return, and the metal was stuck at $1,789 an ounce, having shed 2.4% last week.
From Reuters • Jan. 31, 2022
Bound up from head to tail, it couldn't swim anymore and was now a twenty-mile-long deadweight, looped in over itself like a ring of impotent fury.
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
