1 [U] (BrE) extra money that you get paid for working in a particular area because it is expensive to live there:
London weighting * a weighting allowance for London
2 [C,U] a value that you give to each of a number of things to show how important it is compared with the others:
Each of the factors is given a weighting on a scale of 1 to 10. * Each question in the exam has equal weighting.
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