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Перевод: makeweight

[существительное]
довесок ; добавка ; противовес

Тезаурус:

1. I had to tag him on to group deals as a makeweight - you know, like the contract I did for twelve of my players with UK Airlines.
2. Some makeweight!
3. But he was the makeweight.
4. Wilmington, also part of the Beaufort lands, seems to have been included as a makeweight.
5. Parliamentary proceedings, second thoughts about the drafting, and the addition of makeweight provisions, added to and varied the original core as the Bill progressed.
6. However good scenery is not one of the major virtues on the critical scale; many published opinions throw it in as a sop, a makeweight to balance what they see as much more serious flaws deep in the heart of the Tolkienian "fable", in the essential story of The Lord of the Rings .
7. During the first decade of the twentieth century it became apparent that Britain could no longer sustain its role as an independent makeweight in the European balance of power.
8. In fact, Bari, the last team to beat AC Milan in the league 47 matches and 18 months ago, were inspired by the makeweight in the Platt deal, Angelo Alessio.
9. Parliament was neither a rubber-stamp nor a makeweight in the constitutional balance.
10. It is not improbable that men worth 1 or less did not begin to attract attention until the later stages of the subsidy bill, as a result of the Commons' determination to shift the burden of taxation downwards, for if the intention was to rope in labourers and servants as a makeweight, it could not have been seriously supposed that any substantial amount could be wrung from them.
11. Big John McCormick had had a distinguished career in Scotland, where he had been on the verge of international honours while playing with now defunct Third Lanark and at Aberdeen, but it was, amazingly, as a makeweight that he came south to Crystal Palace.
12. "The other man's a makeweight - an insurance for them in case I withdraw.
13. Rangers are waiting for Keegan to come back with an improved offer after rejecting a staggering 3.3m bid, and Keegan could offer transfer-listed Franz Carr as the makeweight in a new player-cash deal.