Makeweight

noun

Word Frequency: 0.0

Definitions

1.nounSomething of inferior quality which is included in a shipment to make up the weight.

2.nounSomething 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."

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