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Definition of Deadweights
1. deadweight [n] - See also: deadweight
Lexicographical Neighbors of Deadweights
Literary usage of Deadweights
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Edinburgh Medical Journal (1871)
"lish themselves as profitless deadweights. This is not in the true spirit of
economy. The subject of utilizing the insane, and of thus relieving the public ..."
2. Transactions by Manchester Association of Engineers (1899)
"The last method I shall enumerate, (4) is the oscillating of a mass (deadweights
or other pistons) oppositely to the piston by means of a beam vibrated by ..."
3. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"... to amerce My sight from seeing thee,—that if I had died, The deadweights,
placed there, would have signified Less absolute exclusion. ..."
4. The Life of Benjamin Disraeli: Earl of Beaconsfield by William Flavelle Monypenny, George Earle Buckle (1916)
"... consequently in Eastern Europe, consequently also in Western Europe; but what
is the use of these colonial deadweights which we do not govern 1 I don't ..."
5. The History of North America by Guy Carleton Lee, Francis Newton Thorpe (1905)
"... in which matters of public policy in dispute between the two great westerners
were always cumbered by the deadweights of personal suspicion and hate. ..."
6. Russia in Central Asia in 1889 and the Anglo-Russian Question by George Nathaniel Curzon Curzon (1889)
"Foreign competition in any quarter, commercial or otherwise, is crushed by heavy
deadweights hung round its neck. Foreign concessions are as flatly ..."
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