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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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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Future studies will need to determine whether the same effects appear in broader clinical populations, including people with overweight.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026
With all the above concerns in mind, Longview Economics is removing its overweight position in equities and going neutral on stocks.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 4, 2026
Another officer, Ayron McKay, told internal affairs investigators about an instance in which the unit’s officers were discussing a candidate who they believed was overweight.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
"I think these are the same factors that are and have been contributing to overweight and obesity."
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
“Dude, you're such a geek. And that's coming from an overweight Star Trek fan who scored a 5 on the AP Calculus test. So you know your condition is grave.”
From "An Abundance of Katherines" by John Green
Instead, its biggest overweights are energy, healthcare and consumer defensive.
From Barron's ● Jun. 22, 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
He recently increased his overweights in cyclical sectors such as financials and homebuilders.
From Reuters ● Jan. 5, 2022
If she overweights these achievements, it may be because people are so disinclined to give her any credit.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 28, 2020
Length of column in a test of addition under ordinary conditions thus automatically overweights precision in the single additions as compared with knowledge of the process, and ability at carrying.
From The Psychology of Arithmetic by Edward L. (Edward Lee) Thorndike
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
Consider rebalancing portfolios by trimming overweighted positions and rotating into small and mid-cap stocks or bonds.
From Barron's ● Nov. 18, 2025
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
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
Le Roux and team highlight the potential for a swing back toward large caps because institutional investors tend to be “value-driven and slow-moving,” so overweighting the cheaper small cap index was unavoidable.
From MarketWatch ● May 5, 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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