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success ballast

success ballast noun: additional weight added to a winning or successful vehicle as a handicap.

Noun

success ballast (uncountable)

  1. Additional weight added to a winning or successful vehicle as a handicap.
    Synonyms:
    lead trophy

Synonyms of success ballast

Questions about success ballast

What does success ballast mean?
Success ballast means additional weight added to a winning or successful vehicle as a handicap.
What part of speech is success ballast?
Success ballast is a noun.

Words near success ballast in the dictionary

  1. succenturiate
  2. succenturiated
  3. succes de scandale
  4. succesful
  5. success
  6. success ballast
  7. success depends on your backbone, not your wishbone
  8. success has many fathers, failure is an orphan
  9. success is a great deodorant
  10. success message
  11. success messages

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