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weighing machine
noun
A mechanical device, often coin-operated, for determining the weight of an object or person
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Mr. Crenshaw gets his fortune on a weighing machine card.
One the way out again, she passed a weighing machine.
When Jeyasmin takes out her weighing machine, it draws a big crowd.
There were designs for safety lamps and a weighing machine, plans for colliery ventilation, for lighthouses and double-hulled ships.
Under sanctions, Saddam's Iraq moved into such massive inflation that hotels would calculate modest bills with a weighing machine – not for coins but hundred-dinar paper currency notes.
And if it worked as designed, it was also a weighing machine, revealing the market's combined wisdom about the candidates' chances.
But Mrs. Kumar's center has neither a weighing machine for infants nor a salter scale, used for weighing children up to 25 kilograms (55 pounds).
The guard on the reception listens to my appointment with Kate Bush with all the emotion of a weighing machine being told a hard luck story.
Mr. Edge was waiting at the town weighing machine, in Elizabethstrasse, with his Napier car, and behind were Opel and four or five others of the competitors.
Unfortunately, it isn't always easy to say when the market is acting like a voting machine and when it's acting like a weighing machine.
The pioneering investor Ben Graham is said to have described the market as being hard to predict: "In the short run the stock market behaves like a voting machine, but in the long term it acts like a weighing machine".
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