If you describe someone or something as a makeweight, you think that they are not good or valuable and that they have been included in an activity in order to fill up a gap.
例句
He has not been signed to the club as a makeweight to fill out the numbers.他并不是作为凑数的成员签给俱乐部的。
英英词典释义
Noun
1. anything added to fill out a whole;
"some of the items in the collection are mere makeweights"
2. a weight added to the scale to reach a required weight