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makeweight ['meɪkweɪt] nstresses
gen. добавок; довесок; пополнение; дополнение
context. добавка (в знач. "нечто, пускаемое на добавку, чтобы не пропало": Use it for casserole toppings or makeweight in meatloaf.)
disappr. для придания массовости (VLZ_58); для массовки (For the 2024 Olympic games, we are down to just four bidders. Rome is almost certainly going to withdraw under its radical new mayor, and Budapest, frankly, is a makeweight. So we're looking at Los Angeles versus Paris, just two cities.); довесок (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 been signed to the club as a makeweight to fill out the numbers. • ‘this suggestion was thrown in as a makeweight')
Gruzovik, inf. привесок (1. something added on a scale in order to meet a required weight; 2. something added only to fill a lack; 3. a counterweight; a counterbalance)
literal. противовес (a counterweight; a counterbalance); довесок (something put on a scale to make up the required weight)
makeweight: 1 phrase in 1 subject
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