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overweightage

overweightage noun: extra or undue weight or importance.

Noun

overweightage (uncountable)

  1. (India) Extra or undue weight or importance.
    • Overweightage is supposed to be given to these communities, but even equal opportunity is not being given to them.1972, India. Parliament. Rajya Sabha, Parliamentary Debates: Official Report, page 229
    • Don't give overweightage to other people's views about you as to whether they know your calibre or capabilities or whether they overestimate or underestimate you. There are many people in the world who don't know at all about you.1995, M. K. Gupta, How To Remain Ever Happy
  2. (rare) A charge levied for the transportation of excessively heavy goods.
    • How much have they not to pay for carriage, porterage, overweightage, custom-house officerage, and the devil only knows what; […]1841, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 50, page 333

Questions about overweightage

What does overweightage mean?
Overweightage means extra or undue weight or importance.
What part of speech is overweightage?
Overweightage is a noun.

Words near overweightage in the dictionary

  1. overweighed
  2. overweighing
  3. overweighs
  4. overweight
  5. overweight spaceship
  6. overweightage
  7. overweighted
  8. overweightedness
  9. overweighting
  10. overweightness
  11. overweights

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