make-weight

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a person or thing that is not very important but is included so there is the right number of people or the right amount of something
makeweight
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.

makeweight
{n} any thing to make up due weight
makeweight
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
makeweight
{i} something added to reach a required weight; addition, compensation (for something which is lacking)
makeweight
something of inferior quality which is included in a shipment to make up the weight
makeweight
That which is thrown into a scale to make weight; something of little account added to supply a deficiency or fill a gap
makeweight
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