weightagen.

1906 in A. Husain Fazl-i-Husain (1946) vi. 96 Weightage, not by numerical strength but by political importance and value of the contribution made to the defence of the Empire.

1937 Times 24 Dec. 13/3 The Liberals [in Romania] only managed to secure 38 per cent. of the votes... They do not, therefore, qualify for the ‘weightage’ provided by the law of 1926.

1949 I. Jennings Constit. Ceylon ii. 189 In agricultural countries like South Africa and Australia..the rural population, on whom the wealth of the country largely depends, must be given some weightage against the more concentrated and more highly organized urban population.

1957 L. F. R. Williams State of Israel 159 Does the present plan give these fractional groups a weightage in public affairs..which their relative unimportance cannot justify?

1971 Queen's Coll. (Oxford) Record Dec. 22 The geographical distribution of men who have gone down does not reflect quite the same northern weightage as do schools of origin.

1980 Sunday Mail (Brisbane) 9 Nov. 25/1 The National Party yesterday reaffirmed its policy of electoral distribution based on the electoral ‘weightage’ principle.