"carry weight" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Forms: carries weight [present, singular, third-person], carrying weight [participle, present], carried weight [participle, past], carried weight [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} carry weight (third-person singular simple present carries weight, present participle carrying weight, simple past and past participle carried weight)
  1. To be handicapped by an extra burden, as when one rides or runs.
    Sense id: en-carry_weight-en-verb-BvfXRP6r Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 50 50
  2. To have influence. Translations (to have influence): olla painoarvoa (Finnish), olla merkitystä (Finnish), painaa (Finnish), peser dans la balance (French)
    Sense id: en-carry_weight-en-verb-poDSoXm~ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 50 50 Disambiguation of 'to have influence': 3 97
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: carry one's weight

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "2002, Elizabeth Moynihan, Destiny's Whisper, Writers Club Press, page 376",
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