0 something or someone, without much value of its own, that is added so that there is the correct amount or number:
The opera excerpts from the 1960s are little more than makeweights by comparison, but since all of the discs are at budget price it is worth a sample.
What is more, a price was paid as a kind of makeweight for accepting the boundary as a permanency.
I think that the suggestion was put as a piece of makeweight advice and should be immediately discarded.
It is a fine makeweight in conversation and some great men deceive themselves so egregiously as to think they mean something by it.
I was only a lunch-time makeweight before they went off to have a sleep before going to a 5 o'clock and then an 8.30 performance.
The deregulatory measures are a curious assortment of makeweights.
I hope that the use of the management consultants is not merely a sop, or makeweight.
In addition, of course, there is the possible makeweight of these sterling balances, in the pursuit of which both countries have been most persistent.
