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DWL

DWL is the abbreviation of deadweight loss.

Meaning of deadweight loss

Noun

deadweight loss (countable and uncountable, plural deadweight losses)

  1. A loss of economic efficiency due to failure to achieve a free market equilibrium.
    • Basically, China does not want¹ [¹the Chinese government does not want] to exist in a trading system, where goods are traded for other goods. China wants to make all the goods, and have other countries pay for those goods with debt. […] Even if one country is better at making everything, it doesn’t...2026 June 6, Noah Smith, “Why Europe should put up trade barriers against Chinese goods. There are benefits far beyond protectionism”, in Noahopinion [Substack newsletter]

Forms of DWL

pluralDWLs

Questions about DWL

What is DWL the abbreviation of?
DWL is the abbreviation of deadweight loss.

Words near DWL in the dictionary

  1. Dwires
  2. DWIs
  3. Dwitiya
  4. Dwivedi
  5. Dwivedis
  6. DWL
  7. DWM
  8. DWMs
  9. Dwn.
  10. dwobbit
  11. dwobbits

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Adapted from Wiktionary: DWL (page history and authors); deadweight loss (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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