1571 T. Fortescue tr. P. Mexia Foreste ii. xii. f. 80 Rewaight theim then againe [Fr. les repeser], and the cloth whiche you finde to peise or drawe deepest, argueth his water to bee vndoubtedly moste waightiest.

1855 Monthly Jrnl. Med. Apr. 294 The point w being now attained mark it with ink, and then re-weight the book as at the first; after having carefully estimated its weight in the mind.

1882 Cent. Mag. Apr. 914/1 Every purchaser, after having received his piece of meat from the butcher, takes it straightway into the collectors' office, to be reweighted and to pay the duty.

1911 Jrnl. Royal Statist. Soc. 74 356 The marks are reweighted by these new coefficients.

1950 Public Opinion Q. 14 43 We have therefore reweighted the groups (both voters and non-voters) in each survey so that the four sections of the electorate occur in the proportions in which they occur in the total population.

1991 Economist 5 Oct. 113/3 Information about the changes is valuable, as many large investors will now be forced to buy the shares of the chosen companies to re-weight their portfolios.

1938 Econ. Jrnl. 48 417 (table) Reweighted cost of living.

2009 Star (S. Afr.) (Nexis) 26 Feb. 1 The inflation figure for last month, the first to be based on a reweighted and rebased consumer basket, was down from 9.5 percent in December.

1880 Analyst 7 163 At present I have several plans of reweighting, each of which has some reason in its favor.

1997 Economist 1 Feb. 48/2 The commission..has one member per country, except that the five biggest countries..have two apiece... Large countries, notably Britain, France and Spain, have been suggesting a reweighting in their favour.