Meaning of give weight | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To attach importance to.
   idiomatic
2. To improve the credibility or legitimacy of.
   idiomatic

Equivalents

Examples

“… merely observing that if you were to give weight to such an objection, there is not a panel who would not be entitled to the same benefit …”

“Mr. Bailey: Well, I man, that's the opinion of an adversary, if it's a sincere opinion, which I question. I wouldn't give it much weight.”

“There certainly are some cases in which a person's failure to give weight to his or her future interests is irrational.”

“Requiring concrete suggestions or motivations beyond those actually needed by a person of ordinary skill in the art, and failing to give weight to suggestions implicit from the prior art as a whole [...] errs on the side of issuing patents to obvious inventions [...]"”

“What were these 250 men to come for? – I imagined it was to give weight to the petition.”

“The next question is, we are told that this sham Estimate – for there is no intention of making it a real Estimate – is to give weight to this country in the approaching Conference.”

“We soldiers don’t hate one another when the war is over, and maybe the fact that I’ve fought through it will give weight to my words.”

“He started the Jerusalem Foundation to raise money for the city, seeking to give it cultural weight to match it's historical importance. The Israel Museum and the Biblical Zoo were among his pet projects.”

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