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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The bank upgrades the stock to overweight from neutral.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
"Having weak leg muscles and being overweight or obese increases a person's risk for knee osteoarthritis," Cheng said.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026
You'd be surprised how many of us are overweight.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
At 6 feet 3 and 236 pounds, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is, like more than two-thirds of Americans, overweight.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
She was an overweight black woman with twinkling eyes and a dimpled smile.
From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini
Materials, healthcare and information technology are their sector overweights.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 14, 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
Only March 2009 and December 2008 showed larger overweights in bonds.
From Reuters ● Nov. 15, 2023
If she overweights these achievements, it may be because people are so disinclined to give her any credit.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 28, 2020
They had charades during the rest hour that afternoon, the overweights headed by the bishop, against the underweights headed by Mr. Moody.
From Where There's a Will by Mary Roberts Rinehart
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
Then there is his character, a relentlessly lively presence in a team otherwise overweighted towards introspection.
From BBC ● Dec. 22, 2013
I see institutional investors paring down Apple from overweighted to equal weighted to underweighted.
From Forbes ● Nov. 12, 2012
So-called contrarian and value investors, like Warren Buffett, have argued that pessimism is often overweighted in asset prices, which makes widespread gloom a bullish indicator.
From New York Times ● Dec. 30, 2011
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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