All deadweight synonyms

noun deadweight

• burden — If you describe a problem or a responsibility as a burden, you mean that it causes someone a lot of difficulty, worry, or hard work.
• load — anything put in or on something for conveyance or transportation; freight; cargo: The truck carried a load of watermelons.
• duty — something that one is expected or required to do by moral or legal obligation.
• onus — a difficult or disagreeable obligation, task, burden, etc.
• hardship — a condition that is difficult to endure; suffering; deprivation; oppression: a life of hardship.
• strain — to draw tight or taut, especially to the utmost tension; stretch to the full: to strain a rope.
• tax — a tax levied according to the value of the property, merchandise, etc., being taxed.
• difficulty — the fact or condition of being difficult.
• task — a definite piece of work assigned to, falling to, or expected of a person; duty.
• responsibility — the state or fact of being responsible, answerable, or accountable for something within one's power, control, or management.
• trouble — to disturb the mental calm and contentment of; worry; distress; agitate.
• anxiety — Anxiety is a feeling of nervousness or worry.
• worry — to torment oneself with or suffer from disturbing thoughts; fret.
• concern — Concern is worry about a situation.
• need — a requirement, necessary duty, or obligation: There is no need for you to go there.
• function — the kind of action or activity proper to a person, thing, or institution; the purpose for which something is designed or exists; role.
• business — Business is work relating to the production, buying, and selling of goods or services.
• undertaking — the act of a person who undertakes any task or responsibility.
• project — something that is contemplated, devised, or planned; plan; scheme.
• burden — If you describe a problem or a responsibility as a burden, you mean that it causes someone a lot of difficulty, worry, or hard work.
• assignment — An assignment is a task or piece of work that you are given to do, especially as part of your job or studies.
• effort — exertion of physical or mental power: It will take great effort to achieve victory.
• grindstone — a rotating solid stone wheel used for sharpening, shaping, etc.
• imposition — the laying on of something as a burden or obligation.
• demand — If one thing demands another, the first needs the second in order to happen or be dealt with successfully.
• pressure — the exertion of force upon a surface by an object, fluid, etc., in contact with it: the pressure of earth against a wall.
• affliction — An affliction is something which causes physical or mental suffering.
• grievance — a wrong considered as grounds for complaint, or something believed to cause distress: Inequitable taxation is the chief grievance.
• albatross — An albatross is a very large white seabird.
• clog — When something clogs a hole or place, it blocks it so that nothing can pass through.
• obstruction — something that obstructs, blocks, or closes up with an obstacle or obstacles; obstacle or hindrance: obstructions to navigation.
• sorrow — distress caused by loss, affliction, disappointment, etc.; grief, sadness, or regret.
• work — Henry Clay, 1832–84, U.S. songwriter.
• misfortune — adverse fortune; bad luck.
• mishap — an unfortunate accident.
• accountability — the state of being accountable, liable, or answerable.
• blame — If you blame a person or thing for something bad, you believe or say that they are responsible for it or that they caused it.
• trial — German Der Prozess. a novel (1925) by Franz Kafka.
• charge — If you charge someone an amount of money, you ask them to pay that amount for something that you have sold to them or done for them.
• millstone — either of a pair of circular stones between which grain or another substance is ground, as in a mill.
• hindrance — an impeding, stopping, preventing, or the like.
• punishment — the act of punishing.
• care — If you care about something, you feel that it is important and are concerned about it.
• safekeeping — the act of keeping safe or the state of being kept safe; protection; care; custody.
• weight — the amount or quantity of heaviness or mass; amount a thing weighs.
• office — Microsoft Office
• commitment — Commitment is a strong belief in an idea or system.
• must — to be obliged; be compelled: Do I have to go? I must, I suppose.
• right — in accordance with what is good, proper, or just: right conduct.
• obligation — something by which a person is bound or obliged to do certain things, and which arises out of a sense of duty or results from custom, law, etc.