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
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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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“Why would you want to be with an overweight, broke dude?” he texted at one point.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026
Hong Leong maintains an overweight rating on the Malaysian telco sector, pegging Telekom Malaysia and CelcomDigi as its top picks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
It’s a contrarian call: the latest global fund manager survey compiled by Bank of America found that investors said they were more overweight on tech than any other sector.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026
MS has an unchanged overweight rating and US$65.20 target price on the U.S. stock, which closed down 2.9% at US$42.55.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
I went back to where Call was standing on one leg like an overweight egret.
From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson
He said they see better diversifiers within financials and healthcare — their two biggest sector overweights.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 15, 2026
All of which means that investors seeking exposure should either buy a dedicated Latin America fund or an actively managed emerging markets fund that overweights the region.
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2025
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
In truth, Mr. Benny as a regrater fell disastrously short of success, being prone to sell at monstrous overweights, which ate up the profits.
From Shining Ferry by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
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
Managers overweighted both investment-grade corporate bonds and mortgage-backed securities in credit and underweighted Japanese government bonds, expecting that the Bank of Japan would raise rates.
From Barron's ● Feb. 26, 2026
If a training data has an overrepresentation of any gender or ethnicity, the features that distinguish that group may be overweighted.
From New York Times ● Nov. 6, 2018
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
Are investing algorithms flawed because they are likely overweighting historically atypical data?
From Barron's ● Apr. 15, 2026
At Citigroup, strategists are now recommending overweighting U.S. stocks from a prior neutral stance.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 14, 2026
"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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