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make-weight

make-weight is the alternative form of makeweight.

Meaning of makeweight

Noun

makeweight (plural makeweights)

  1. Something of inferior quality which is included in a shipment to make up the weight.
    • 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.1893, Richard Le Gallienne, in a publisher's report on stories by Ernest Dowson, quoted in Jad Adams, Madder Music, Stronger Wine, page 88.
  2. 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.

Forms of make-weight

pluralmake-weights

Questions about make-weight

What is make-weight the alternative form of?
Make-weight is the alternative form of makeweight.

Words near make-weight in the dictionary

  1. make-up artists
  2. make-up remover
  3. make-up removers
  4. make-up sex
  5. make-ups
  6. make-weight
  7. make-weights
  8. make-work
  9. makeability
  10. makeable
  11. makeables

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