overweight
Americanadjective
noun
adjective
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weighing more than is usual, allowed, or healthy
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finance
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having a higher proportion of one's investments in a particular sector of the market than the size of that sector relative to the total market would suggest: portfolio managers are currently overweight in bonds
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(of a fund etc) invested disproportionately in this way
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noun
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extra or excess weight
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archaic greater importance or effect
verb
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to give too much emphasis or consideration to
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to add too much weight to
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to weigh down
Other Word Forms
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Conjugated Forms
Present
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overweightsimple
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overweightssimple
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have overweightedperfect
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has overweightedperfect
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am overweightingprogressive
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are overweightingprogressive
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is overweightingprogressive
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have been overweightingperfect progressive
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has been overweightingperfect progressive
Past
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overweightedsimple
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had overweightedperfect
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was overweightingprogressive
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were overweightingprogressive
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had been overweightingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of overweight
Example Sentences
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It keeps an overweight rating on Malaysia’s oil and gas sector.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
The brokerage maintains its overweight rating on MediaTek and says the company could also benefit from a closer relationship with Alphabet on AI chip development.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
I would add energy as a fourth overweight.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026
The bank is overweight the financial, industrial and consumer discretionary goods sectors.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 24, 2026
Now Frolic was middle-aged, overweight, lazy, and no longer needing to chew.
From "Son" by Lois Lowry
Broader sector overweights include the tech-heavy communications services, which includes Alphabet and Meta Platforms, financials and materials, while market weighted sectors include consumer staples, information technology, and healthcare.
From Barron's ● May 8, 2026
“We maintain our overweights in health care and materials but no longer recommend stocks exposed to the middle-income consumer or the non-residential construction cycle,” they say.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 16, 2026
If she overweights these achievements, it may be because people are so disinclined to give her any credit.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 28, 2020
“My overweights change based on where I find good investments, and I see great stuff in tech now.”
From New York Times ● Oct. 13, 2017
It overweights the whole monument, introduces a discordant architectural motive, and is decorated by inferior sculpture.
From Donatello, by Lord Balcarres by David Lindsay, Earl of Crawford
Information technology and communication services, which we overweighted for a long time, moved back to market weight toward the end of last year.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026
The market pullback offers an opportunity to rebalance portfolios, potentially trimming overweighted tech stocks and rotating into small- or mid-cap and value stocks.
From Barron's ● Nov. 18, 2025
“The dealers’ survey is overweighted to the larger galleries,” said Servais in an interview.
From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 2022
Maybe they overweighted cost of living, climate and activities too much.
From Forbes ● Sep. 5, 2014
Since the canoe is as round-bottomed as the trunk from which it was carved, the least imbalance in weight distribution tips the canoe toward the overweighted side.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
Overall, Miller is overweighting technology stocks in his portfolio, anticipating at least high-teens-percentage earnings growth in the next five to 10 years, but he is cognizant of risks in the sector.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026
Lately, that’s meant overweighting sectors, such as energy and industrials, and underweighting tech, a move that’s hurt performance in recent years.
From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 2025
"Some sovereign wealth funds are overweighting China," he said.
From Reuters ● Oct. 10, 2023
This is exactly what would be expected if hallucinations in psychosis depended on an overweighting of perceptual priors so that they overwhelmed sensory prediction errors, unmooring perceptual best guesses from their causes in the world.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 27, 2019
The front wheels are sinking faster, overweighting the harness.
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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