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UK
/mˈeɪkweɪt/
]
NOUN
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anything added to fill out a whole
some of the items in the collection are mere makeweights - a weight added to the scale to reach a required weight
How To Use makeweight In A Sentence
- The Mozart ‘Haffner,’ which serves as a makeweight for Bruckner's Fifth, was recorded in 1976.
- This came a mere two weeks after Smith was brought to Tayside by Duffy as the makeweight in a £600,000 deal which took Morten Wieghorst to Celtic Park.
- Glazunov's Reverie was the original makeweight for the fourth side of the Mozart set.
- Tiny ivory fans were put into tea chests as makeweights and we all associate white ostrich feather with presentation at court.
- The only way he would join a bigger side is if he was used as a makeweight in a transfer deal.
- In addition, Graille said United also offered keeper Fabien Barthez as a makeweight during early talks over Ronaldinho's future.
- And the Wildcats are believed to have targeted promising young loose forward Jamie Langley as a makeweight in any deal.
- In search of much-needed cohesion in the second half, Benitez sent on Antonio Nunez, the winger who was a makeweight in the deal that took Michael Owen to Real Madrid.
- It has been mooted, though, that Rangers defender Michael Ball could be a makeweight to ensure the deal looks good on paper for all sides.
- Hedman filled a void created by Dmitri Kharine's summer contract expiry but the Sweden international is not expected to be just a squad makeweight.