carry weight

1. 1.

   have influence to a specified degree

   “Her opinion carries a lot of weight”

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Questions about carry weight

What does carry weight mean?

carry weight means "have influence to a specified degree".

Is carry weight a common word?

carry weight is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.