MAKEWEIGHT


Meaning of MAKEWEIGHT in English

(~s)

If you describe someone or something as a ~, 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 not been signed to the club as a ~ to fill out the numbers.

N-COUNT disapproval

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