SHORT WEIGHT

  

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SHORT WEIGHT

Specialty Definition: SHORT WEIGHT

DomainDefinition

Economics

Any shipment found to weigh less than the documents indicate, be it a bill of lading, a dock receipt, a warehouse receipt, an inspection certificate, or a weight tally. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Usage: SHORT WEIGHT

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Short Weight (1922)

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Expressions: SHORT WEIGHT

Expressions using "SHORT WEIGHT": give short weight have a short weight. Additional references.

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Modern Translation: SHORT WEIGHT

Language Translations for "SHORT WEIGHT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

mungesë peshe. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

alipainoinen (underweight), alipaino (underweight). (various references)

   

French

  

ne pas donner le poids juste (give short weight). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

mérésnél becsap (to give short weight). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ortshay eightway

   

Romanian

  

cântãri în minus (give short weight). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

недовес. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

väga för knappt åt (have a short weight). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: SHORT WEIGHT

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-g-h-h-i-o-r-s-t-t-w"

-1 letter: ghostwrite, growthiest.

-2 letters: worthiest.

-3 letters: ghostier, gothites, hitherto, rightest, theorist, thorites, whitters, worthies.

-4 letters: egotist, eighths, ghettos, goiters, goitres, goriest, gothite, growths, heights, heriots, highest, hitters, hogties, hoister, hottish, ogreish, resight, retwist, shortie, showier, sighter, swither, swotter, thither, thorite, tighter, tithers, trowths, twister, weights, wettish, whitest, whither, whitter, whorish, withers, wrights, writhes.

-5 letters: egoist, eighth.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Usage: Modern
2. Expressions
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Bibliography


  

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