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Makeweight
noun
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Noun
- 1 Something of inferior quality which is included in a shipment to make up the weight.
"1893, Richard Le Gallienne, in a publisher's report on stories by Ernest Dowson, quoted in Jad Adams, Madder Music, Stronger Wine, page 88. I would advise you to accept these as an instalment of a volume, (they are not big enough to make one themselves) with the promise that the stories to come should be more striking, more original in theme — not less so, not mere makeweights — than those under consideration."
- 2 a weight added to the scale to reach a required weight wordnet
- 3 Something included to add to the apparent weight or force of an argument.
"He added a long litany of peripheral precedents which the judge dismissed as mere makeweights."
- 4 anything added to fill out a whole wordnet
Etymology
From make + weight.
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