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Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - makeweight

 
 

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Makeweight

makeweight
(makeweights) If you describe someone or something as a makeweight, you think that they are not good or valuable and that they have been included in an activity in order to fill up a gap. He has not been signed to the club as a makeweight to fill out the numbers. N-COUNT c darkgreen]disapproval
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1.
   noun  Date: 1695  1.  a. something thrown into a scale to bring the weight to a desired value  b. something of little independent value thrown in to fill a gap  2. counterweight, counterpoise ...
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  n. 1 a small quantity or thing added to make up the full weight. 2 an unimportant extra person. 3 an unimportant point added to make an argument seem stronger. ...
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  довесок ...
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  noun  1) довесок, добавка  2) tech. противовес ...
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