Meanings
- IndiauncountableExtra or undue weight or importance.
Overweightage is supposed to be given to these communities, but even equal opportunity is not being given to them.
1972, India. Parliament. Rajya Sabha, Parliamentary Debates: Official Report, page 2291 more example
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.
1995, M. K. Gupta, How To Remain Ever Happy - rareuncountableA charge levied for the transportation of excessively heavy goods.
How much have they not to pay for carriage, porterage, overweightage, custom-house officerage, and the devil only knows what; […]
1841, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 50, page 333
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