overweight

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Having a higher weight, especially body fat, than what is generally considered healthy…

   Having a higher weight, especially body fat, than what is generally considered healthy for a given body type and height.

   • Before her diet, Jane was noticeably overweight, but she shed five kilos in the next two months.
2. 2

   Weighing more than what is allowed for safety or legal commerce.

   • All States allow oversized vehicles if a special permit is obtained, although most States will grant overweight permits only for non-divisible loads.
   • He got as far as the first weigh station, where troopers found his truck to be overweight and threatened to pull him off the road.
3. 3

   Having a portfolio relatively heavily invested in.

   • Our portfolio is very overweight (in) Asian technology stocks.
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   1. 4

      An excess of weight.

      • It is clear that a bird would certainly be grounded by overweight if it retained eggs in the body and discharged them in large numbers at one time, like a turtle[.]
   2. 5

      The condition of being overweight.

      • SCHOOL MEAL ISSUES FOR CHILDREN AT RISK FOR OVERWEIGHT
   3. 6

      An overweight person.

      • The study provides up-to-date facts on the variety of diseases, vascular, metabolic, hepatic, and other, which are responsible for the excess mortality of overweights.
      • Singh found that the normal weight figures were judged more attractive than the underweights‚ who were more attractive than the overweights.
      • Subjects were grouped as Group 1 and Group 2 according to VAI, and normals, overweights and obeses according to BMI.
   4. 7

      A security or class of securities in which one has a heavy concentration.

      • Apple common stock is one of our overweights.
   5. 8

      To weigh down

      To weigh down: to put too heavy a burden on.

      • By noon the fat, perspiring, and importantly busy merchant arrives, overweighted with red blood, fat, and responsibility, for a game of manille or dominoes with three or four old cronies.
      • Throughout the country there were: rupture of telecommunications, resulting amongst other things from telegraph wires and posts overweighted by snow or struck down by gales; [...].
   6. 9

      To place excessive weight or emphasis on

      To place excessive weight or emphasis on; to overestimate the importance of.

      • We also over-weight such vaine future conjectures, which infant-spirits give us.
      • Kinnel explained it, the problem at Select High Income was that it overweighted mortgage bonds and underweighted other types of corporate debt, a strategy that backfired when the mortgage market collapsed.

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