(n.) That which is thrown into a scale to make weight; something of little account added to supply a deficiency or fill a gap.
Example Sentences:
(1) The size of the fee feels startling given that Matic had been considered little more than a £3m makeweight in the £23.5m deal that brought David Luiz from the Estádio da Luz three years ago.
(2) Van Gaal is open to letting the winger leave if he can be a makeweight in acquiring Cavani.
(3) Barça hope to secure the player this summer, with the Chile forward Alexis Sánchez potentially moving to Anfield as an eye-catching makeweight, and have indicated they have the funds to compete at such a level in the transfer market.
(4) The reasons include the inevitable argument over the value of the makeweight, his personal terms and desire to make the move.
(5) The prospective valuation of Vidal is not thought to be an issue for Van Gaal, with one option being to offer a player as a makeweight.
(6) Barcelona are believed to be willing to pay a straight cash sum for Suárez or to include Alexis Sánchez as a makeweight, as Liverpool had requested.
(7) A player could also be included as a makeweight in the second deal.
(8) The 24-year-old has endured a troubled time at Villa and has started only six Premier League matches since arriving as a makeweight in the deal that took James Milner to Manchester City.
(9) Levy would want any makeweight to come over and above the €100m fee for Bale whereas Real would decrease the cash sum according to the player involved.
(10) Tottenham Hotspur are prepared to sell Gareth Bale to Real Madrid and they will tell the Spanish club that the prospect of a deal would increase if the striker Alvaro Morata were included as a makeweight.
(11) Yet the fee remains remarkable given Chelsea had considered Matic to be only a makeweight in the deal which brought David Luiz from Benfica in the 2011 mid-winter window, the midfielder's valuation at the time being placed at around £3m.
(12) Benfica earmarked him then as a priority makeweight when the London club sought to recruit David Luiz and he impressed against his former club in May's Europa League final .
(13) Although the possibility of Alexis Sánchez joining as a £30m makeweight appealed to Rodgers, that prospect died when the Chile striker swapped Barça for Arsenal on Thursday.
(14) They have put forward the left-back Fábio Coentrão and the winger Angel di María, whose values they have variously factored into the potential package, but Tottenham maintain that the deal will be on their terms, meaning that they choose any makeweights and the one that they want is Morata.
(15) The ageing Mexican wonder-makeweight Giovani dos Santos could be going the other way.
(16) On the other hand, Chelsea's re-signing of Nemanja Matic in January for £21m, three years after they allowed him to leave as a makeweight worth £3m in the deal that brought David Luiz from Benfica, has proved that judgments and decisions on players can be reversed.
(17) But Algeria, unjustly written off as this group’s likely makeweights but ranked above all their African rivals, refused to be intimidated and pushed Belgium all the way.
(18) The £21m outlay raised eyebrows, given he had been considered a makeweight two years previously, but he has added value to this set-up.
Shipment
Definition:
(n.) The act or process of shipping; as, he was engaged in the shipment of coal for London; an active shipment of wheat from the West.
(n.) That which is shipped.
Example Sentences:
(1) Freezing may be valuable while quality control procedures are performed following radiolabeling as well as if temporary storage or shipment of radioantibodies prior to patient dosing is undertaken.
(2) Russia has stepped up its battle against parmesan cheese, Danish bacon and other European delicacies, announcing it plans to incinerate contraband shipments on the border as soon as they are discovered.
(3) The results suggest that shipment and long-term storage of freeze-dried foot-and-mouth disease virus antigens is possible for use in the ELISA in the absence of refrigeration.
(4) He sold the first Tesco product – Tesco Tea – five years later when he bought a tea shipment from a merchant called TE Stockwell and combined their initials on the packaging.
(5) It also emerged that Cameron confronted Putin over arms supplies and had been personally involved in plans to prevent a Russian-manned shipment of three repaired attack helicopters and air defence systems reaching Syria.
(6) The first trial heard that Fleckney, a drug dealer known as "the chairman of the board", passed Clark information about drug shipments.
(7) The importation of a shipment of high-Se wheat from Australia in 1984 raised Se concentrations in breads and other wheat products two to four fold.
(8) The number of shipments in which Newcastle disease was found to be present in the birds is reviewed.
(9) Also in August, terrorist attacks were intensified, including speedboat strafing attacks on a Cuban seaside hotel "where Soviet military technicians were known to congregate, killing a score of Russians and Cubans"; attacks on British and Cuban cargo ships; contaminating sugar shipments; and other atrocities and sabotage, mostly carried out by Cuban exile organizations permitted to operate freely in Florida.
(10) Heins was speaking less than a week after RIM unveiled quarterly results with an operating loss of $643m (£409m) and handset shipments which dipped to their lowest level since spring 2009, amid a smartphone market growing at 50% annually.
(11) Michelle Wiese Bockman, markets editor of Lloyd's List, the shipping news and data provider, said the shipment provided "a signal that Libya is open to international trade and shipping.
(12) Aid shipments into the devastated city of Aleppo have yet to be allowed to reach civilians.
(13) Government restrictions, instituted in 2006, forbid the export of raw teff grain, only allowing shipments of injera and other processed products.
(14) The Sharq al-Awsat newspaper quoted a US official as saying Sudan had been warned in advance about the shipment.
(15) Similarly, 15 MAI strains were isolated from the lymph node pools of 12 deer from the 2 imported shipments.
(16) The former saw iPhone shipments rise from 26.9m in Q3 2012 to 33.8m in Q3 2013, but its market share dropped from 15.6% to 13.4% in that time.
(17) Analysts call shipments to intermediaries "sell-in"; the total number that actually reaches customers is "sell-through".
(18) PC calves had significantly less shrink after shipment and in 1971 significantly more rapid daily gain during the first weeks of the feeding period.
(19) While phablet shipments are still a small proportion of overall global smartphone shipments, they are seeing a marked increase in sales according to IDC's data.
(20) Areas with relatively poor adherence rates included pharmacy department preparation of investigational drug patient-information sheets (20.5%), maintaining information within the pharmacy on minimum stock levels (53.9%), mode of shipment (30.8%), time to receive investigational drugs after order placed (38.5%), acceptance of nursing transcriptions of oral orders (56.8%), including "investigational drug" on the dispensing label (55.8%), and approval of data sheets by the investigator and the institutional review board (40.5% and 37.8%, respectively).