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单词 short weight
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Definition of short weight in English:

short weight

noun
mass noun
  • Weight that is less than that declared.

    unscrupulous retailers give short weight by including an excessive amount of packaging
    Example sentencesExamples
    • He once wrote a story about a well-known supermarket, which he accused of selling dirty vegetable and giving short weight.
    • It is unacceptable for any trader to give short weight or measure to consumers.
    • It is illegal to give short weight or measure.
    • Scores of contract chicken farmers associated with the giant Supermix Group of Companies are crowing with anger at the company's failure to deal with a problem of short weight in the bags of feed they allocate to the farmers.

Rhymes

abate, ablate, aerate, ait, await, backdate, bait, bate, berate, castrate, collate, conflate, crate, create, cremate, date, deflate, dictate, dilate, distraite, donate, downstate, eight, elate, equate, estate, fate, fête, fixate, freight, frustrate, gait, gate, gestate, gradate, grate, great, gyrate, hate, hydrate, inflate, innate, interrelate, interstate, irate, Kate, Kuwait, lactate, late, locate, lustrate, mandate, mate, migrate, misdate, misstate, mistranslate, mutate, narrate, negate, notate, orate, ornate, Pate, placate, plate, prate, prorate, prostrate, pulsate, pupate, quadrate, rate, rotate, sate, sedate, serrate, skate, slate, spate, spectate, spruit, stagnate, state, straight, strait, Tate, tête-à-tête, Thwaite, translate, translocate, transmigrate, truncate, underrate, understate, underweight, update, uprate, upstate, up-to-date, vacate, vibrate, wait, weight
 
 

Definition of short weight in US English:

short weight

noun
  • Weight that is less than that declared.

    unscrupulous retailers give short weight by including an excessive amount of packaging
    Example sentencesExamples
    • It is illegal to give short weight or measure.
    • It is unacceptable for any trader to give short weight or measure to consumers.
    • He once wrote a story about a well-known supermarket, which he accused of selling dirty vegetable and giving short weight.
    • Scores of contract chicken farmers associated with the giant Supermix Group of Companies are crowing with anger at the company's failure to deal with a problem of short weight in the bags of feed they allocate to the farmers.
 
 
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