makeweight
/M EY1 K W EY0 T/noun
- 1
Something of inferior quality which is included in a shipment to make up the weight.
- 2
Something 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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