overweightage

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overweightage (uncountable)

  1. (India) Extra or undue weight or importance.
    • 1972, India. Parliament. Rajya Sabha, Parliamentary Debates: Official Report, page 229:
      Overweightage is supposed to be given to these communities, but even equal opportunity is not being given to them.
    • 1995, M. K. Gupta, How To Remain Ever Happy:
      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.