Sentence example with the word 'makeweight'

makeweight

Definition n. anything added to fill out a whole

Last update: July 2, 2015


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"I'll throw in two for makeweight," said the woman with her good-natured look.'   [Please select]

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"So this Jake Bolton is to have the boy, with you thrown in as a makeweight; is that it."   [Please select]

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* Canadian statesmen were determined to prevent poaching on the inshore fisheries, both because poaching was poaching and because they considered the fishery privileges the best makeweight in trade negotiations with the United States.   [Please select]

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Healing time, a healthful lack of publicity, changing fishing methods, and Canada's abandonment of her old policy of using fishing privileges as a makeweight, gradually eased the friction.   [Please select]

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