0 something or someone, without much value of its own, that is added so that there is the correct amount or number: --
It always ended up being a makeweight.
This complaint of lack of clarity is made the occasion of a makeweight in so many arguments by people who have never attempted to make clear provisions themselves.
He will not advertise it extensively; he will not print it in large quantities, and he will probably only use it as a makeweight in his catalogue.
Perhaps he would tell us, therefore, why his party, over the period of its recent office, introduced 30 separate schemes, which he now describes as makeweight?
They are not even makeshift; they are just makeweight.
Then there is the suggestion that this is only a little makeweight, a little matter of bargaining.
It is a fine makeweight in conversation, and some great men deceive themselves so egregiously as to think they mean something by it.
In addition, of course, there is the possible makeweight of these sterling balances, in the pursuit of which both countries have been most persistent.
