overweightageとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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overweightage (uncountable)

1. (India) Extra or undue weight or importance.
   • 1972, India. Parliament. Rajya Sabha, Parliamentary Debates: Official Report, page 229:

     Overweightage is supposed to be given to these communities, but even equal opportunity is not being given to them.

   • 1995, M. K. Gupta, How To Remain Ever Happy:

     Don't give overweightage to other people's views about you as to whether they know your calibre or capabilities or whether they overestimate or underestimate you. There are many people in the world who don't know at all about you.

2. (rare) A charge levied for the transportation of excessively heavy goods.
   • 1841, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (volume 50, page 333)

     How much have they not to pay for carriage, porterage, overweightage, custom-house officerage, and the devil only knows what; […]