Meaning of makeweight in English
(Definition of makeweight from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of makeweight
makeweight
The opera excerpts from the 1960s are little more than makeweights by comparison, but since all of the discs are at budget price it is worth a sample.
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What is more, a price was paid as a kind of makeweight for accepting the boundary as a permanency.
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I think that the suggestion was put as a piece of makeweight advice and should be immediately discarded.
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It is a fine makeweight in conversation and some great men deceive themselves so egregiously as to think they mean something by it.
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I was only a lunch-time makeweight before they went off to have a sleep before going to a 5 o'clock and then an 8.30 performance.
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The deregulatory measures are a curious assortment of makeweights.
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I hope that the use of the management consultants is not merely a sop, or makeweight.
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In addition, of course, there is the possible makeweight of these sterling balances, in the pursuit of which both countries have been most persistent.
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It is a fine makeweight in conversation, and some great men deceive themselves so egregiously as to think they mean something by it.
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Then there is the suggestion that this is only a little makeweight, a little matter of bargaining.
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They are not even makeshift; they are just makeweight.
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Perhaps he would tell us, therefore, why his party, over the period of its recent office, introduced 30 separate schemes, which he now describes as makeweight?
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He will not advertise it extensively; he will not print it in large quantities, and he will probably only use it as a makeweight in his catalogue.
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This complaint of lack of clarity is made the occasion of a makeweight in so many arguments by people who have never attempted to make clear provisions themselves.
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It always ended up being a makeweight.
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