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What does dead weight mean?

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Noun
  1. Unremitting heavy weight that does not move
  2. (idiomatic) that which is useless or excess; that which slows something down
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He has a best deep knee squat lift of 125 kilos, a best bench press lift of 80 kilos and a best dead weight lift of 150 kilos.
We must instead place our selves and our present day existence where they rightfully belong, in the center of our universe, and shake off the dead weight of the past.
On the roof, Roger struggles under the dead weight of the young man.
And, as it happens, the rescuer shedding what he knew would be the dead weight of his clothing was my great-great-grandfather, John Kitchel.
The koala was a dead weight holding me down and we stayed in those brown dark depths for what seemed like half an eternity.
Since dead weight is dropped continuously, staging reduces the total amount of propellant needed to put people or satellites into orbit.

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