Thus their travel time is a dead loss: and reducing that travel time becomes a very valuable and major benefit.

FORBES: Why We Shouldn't be Building Large Infrastructure Projects

The liquidity premium is a dead weight loss to the economy in that it is a discouragement to investment.

FORBES: What Is the Liquidity Premium? What Does It Mean?

To make up for this dead-weight loss, government spending must be worth much more than its apparent budget cost to be good for the country.

WSJ: Opinion: Corporate Tax Cuts Needed

Opposition spokesman Lord Eatwell said tax avoidance by businesses "undermines any perception of fairness in the tax system and imposes a dead-weight loss on the economy, by spawning a socially-useless tax avoidance industry".

BBC: Tax avoidance debate

The widow of a naval officer who was shot dead by a junior rating on board a nuclear submarine has been awarded a medal to mark her loss.

BBC: Manchester