makeweight

English - Turkish

Definition of makeweight in English Turkish dictionary: tamamlayıcı ağırlık; önemsiz kimse; {i} fasulyeden oyuncu; tartı tamam olsun diye ilâve edilen ağırlık; {i} önemsiz şey; takım tamam olsun diye ilâve olunan değersiz kimse veya şey; {i} ufak ilave

English - English

Definition of makeweight in English English dictionary: Something included to add to the apparent weight or force of a argument
He added a long litany of peripheral precedents which the judge dismissed as mere makeweights.; Something of inferior quality which is included in a shipment to make up the weight
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.; {n} any thing to make up due weight; disapproval 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; {i} something added to reach a required weight; addition, compensation (for something which is lacking); That which is thrown into a scale to make weight; something of little account added to supply a deficiency or fill a gap; a weight added to the scale to reach a required weight anything added to fill out a whole; "some of the items in the collection are mere makeweights