The word
"deadweight" refers to something heavy or burdensome that slows down progress or holds you back. It can represent a person, situation, or item that adds no value or benefit and instead is only a hindrance.
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To be better than Chelsea we have to be more consistent, and for my liking we need to lose
of deadweight like Flamini too.
The exhibition will also include works from several of Serra's drawing series made in the 1990s, such
as Deadweights (1991), Weight and Measure (1994), Rounds (1996 — 97), and Out - of - Rounds (1999 — 2000).
Weight transfer that leads to understeer or oversteer is remarkably palpable in slow corners, thanks in part to the chassis stiffness and lack of feedback - muddying
deadweight like nav systems, airbags, and stereo.
Right George, good thing Edmonton jettisoned Hall's
deadweight from their team — he was totally holding them back
Now Alexis Sanchez is one of the best player of Premier League but have lately
become deadweight at Arsenal.
Besides, the income of high earners is more flexible and mobile than the income of other people, so raising their taxes causes the strongest behavioral responses and
largest deadweight losses.
Furthermore, as stated by the EPA «Biofuels also tend to require subsidies and other market interventions to compete economically with fossil fuels, which
creates deadweight losses in the economy.»
Don't exacerbate the issue by needing to figure out how to deal with large
equity deadweight on your hands (investors won't like that the # 2 stakeholder is absent, even estranged, from your company).
I'm a mag person more than a newsprint one, so my inclination is to like them: but I think that the decision to end the Observer mags (bar Food) was the right one, and a lot of G2 is
deadweight now.
But, for all its ubiquity, it is often tagged as being fairly bland, a sort of
galactic deadweight that only reveals itself through its gravitational pull.
Director Leah Walker's
thriller Deadweight will star True Blood's Sam Trammell as a young partner in a prestigious law firm.
I've always found this argument a bit silly, since it's not as if any of the filmmakers listed above are long past their prime, or could credibly be dismissed as
artistic deadweight.
Legolas's appearances in the Lord of the Rings saga were as sure a sign of
narrative deadweight as any, a restroom - break signal to anyone who'd already his or her fill of arrows fired into Orc backs and faces.
In economic theory there's a notion
called deadweight loss, or market inefficiency, which impacts a consumer when the value of an item's utility is less than the price paid for it.
As younger generations of artists continue to revisit the formal vocabulary of modernism's past, Förg's art — which the Stedelijk's retrospective will survey in full — remains an important model: one unencumbered by the
twin deadweights of irony and melancholy and filled with a serious and sustained (though never fully credulous) commitment to the twentieth century's endlessly generative legacy.
Generally, price competition has the effect of lowering prices for goods, increasing output,
decreasing deadweight losses, and benefiting consumers.
Each year, abusive patent litigation drains tens of billions of dollars from the economy, creating
tremendous deadweight losses as well as a great deal of uncertainty.»
Without more action by the government to help housing, the Fed warns that «the adjustment process will take longer and incur
more deadweight losses, pushing house prices lower and thereby prolonging the downward pressure on the wealth of current home owners and the resultant drag on the economy at large.»
He argued that the prime minister's veto should lead to the establishment of a new relationship with Europe «based upon free trade, competitiveness and growth, moving away from political union and
deadweight regulation».
But other times, the cutting is a relief and a joy
as deadweight is removed and burdens are lifted.
All that said, I still think there are
deadweight losses hiding inside that swap books of the major investment banks.
(If it weren't, and we were all prepared to work just as many hours for free, then taxes on labour income wouldn't reduce employment, and wouldn't have
any deadweight costs.)
She talked for a few minutes about collection costs and
the deadweight loss triangles of distorting taxes.
And
the deadweight costs of those taxes are due to the reduction in employment they cause, if either the labour supply or demand curve is not perfectly inelastic.
Let financial managers do the planning, because they are the most productive people in the world — while government is just
a deadweight bureaucracy.
Deadweight loss can be applied to any deficiency caused by an inefficient allocation of resources.
He won't go, and isn't the biggest piece of
deadweight we have at the moment.
so now we have sold Man Utd RVP, and helped them fund a move for Falcao, while also getting rid of
their deadweight.
People were saying at the start of the season that Walcott is
deadweight and get mahrez etc..
Sell
the deadweight and buy quality proven players to win this league once and for all.
I'd much rather just go into the season with Giroud and Walcott, wait on Welbeck, instead of adding
another deadweight player that won't leave for 3 - 4 seasons.
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