makeweight
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makeweight
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From make + weight.
noun makeweights · make-weight
- 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 shou
- 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.
Talk about this word "makeweight." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/makeweight. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. makeweight. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/makeweight "makeweight." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/makeweight.
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@misc{makeweight_2026,
title = {makeweight},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/makeweight},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
