• Deadweight loss
  Deadweight loss
  In economics, a deadweight loss is a loss of economic efficiency that can occur when equilibrium for a good or service is not Pareto optimal...
  
  , an economics concept
• Deadweight tonnage
  Deadweight tonnage
  Deadweight tonnage is a measure of how much weight a ship is carrying or can safely carry. It is the sum of the weights of cargo, fuel, fresh water, ballast water, provisions, passengers, and crew...
  
  , a ship's carrying capacity with crew and supplies
• "Deadweight" (song)
  Deadweight (song)
  "Deadweight" is a single by Beck, taken from the soundtrack to the film A Life Less Ordinary. The song was nominated for Best Song from a Movie at the 1998 MTV Movie Awards, but lost out to Will Smith's "Men in Black". The song can also be found on the Deluxe Edition of Odelay.-Music video:This...
  
  , a song on Beck's 1997 album A Life Less Ordinary

• Deadweight (American band), a San Francisco alternative hard rock trio
• Dead Weight (novel), a 2000 mystery novel by Steven F. Havill
  Steven F. Havill
  Steven F. Havill is an American author of mysteries and westerns.Havill lives in Ratón, New Mexico, with his wife Kathleen. He has written two series of police procedurals set in the fictional Posadas County, New Mexico; along with other works....
  
  
• Dead Weight (film), a 1971 film starring Val Avery
  Val Avery
  Val Avery was an American character actor who appeared in hundreds of movies and television shows since the 1950s. In a career that spanned 50 years, Avery appeared in over 100 films and had appearances in over 300 television series.-Early life:Avery was born in Philadelphia...
  
  
• Deadweight (UK band), a five-piece progressive death metal band from Stourbridge, UK.

See also

• Dead load, the fixed weight of a structure of piece of equipment, such as a bridge on its supports