overweight
About 2.00 uses per million words.
Meaning
- adjective 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.
- adjective Weighing more than what is allowed for safety or legal commerce.
- adjective Having a portfolio relatively heavily invested in.
Our portfolio is very overweight (in) Asian technology stocks.
- noun An excess of weight.
- noun The condition of being overweight.
- noun An overweight person.
- noun A security or class of securities in which one has a heavy concentration.
Apple common stock is one of our overweights.
- verb To weigh down: to put too heavy a burden on.
Similar words
fat corpulence fleshy heavy stoutness adiposis obese plump obesity bulge
Often followed by
and or people is in children women individuals person
Word family
overweighted overweighting overweights
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