English-Dutch translations for ballast

• ballast
  We kunnen het ons niet permitteren om voortdurend deze ideologische ballast met ons mee te dragen. We cannot afford to keep on being weighed down by this ideological ballast.
  Het verslag was beter geweest zonder deze intellectuele ballast. The report would have been better without such intellectual ballast.
  Voorzitter, vergun mij eerst even een korte reactie op hetgeen de heer Bloom net zei over de Ballast Nedam-affaire en de pensioenfondsen van de Engelse medewerkers van Ballast Nedam. Mr President, allow me first of all to respond briefly to what Mr Bloom said a moment ago about the Ballast Nedam case and the pension funds of its English employees.
• ballastbed
• bedding

Definition of ballast

• Heavy material that is placed in the hold of a ship , to provide stability
• Coarse gravel or similar material laid to form a bed for roads or railroads, or in making concrete
• device used for stabilizing current in an electric circuit (e.g. in a tube lamp supply circuit
• To stabilize or load a ship with ballast

Related words

• ballast-bed
• ballasting
• unballasted
• ballast tank
• ballast resistor
• ballast tamper
• ballast water
• Track ballast
• sailing ballast