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Something of inferior quality which is included in a shipment to make up the weight.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- 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.
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Something included to add to the apparent weight or force of an argument.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- He added a long litany of peripheral precedents which the judge dismissed as mere makeweights.
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a weight added to the scale to reach a required weight
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: weight
anything added to fill out a whole
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- some of the items in the collection are mere makeweights
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Synonyms: filler
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Broader terms: object, physical object
