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top-heavy

[top-hev-ee]

adjective

  1. having the top disproportionately heavy; liable to fall from too great weight above.

  2. relatively much heavier or larger above the center or waist than below.

    a top-heavy wrestler.

  3. Finance.

    1. having a financial structure overburdened with securities that have priority in the payment of dividends.

    2. overcapitalized.



top-heavy

adjective

  1. unstable or unbalanced through being overloaded at the top

  2. finance (of an enterprise or its capital structure) characterized by or containing too much debt capital in relation to revenue or profit so that too little is left over for dividend distributions; overcapitalized

  3. (of a business enterprise) having too many executives

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Other Word Forms

  • top-heavily adverb
  • top-heaviness noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of top-heavy1

First recorded in 1525–35; top 1 + heavy
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Example Sentences

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Investment, he said, needed to be in "the right places" not "top-heavy organisations".

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If he can revert back to being a near .300 hitter, it could significantly help lengthen a sometimes top-heavy lineup.

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Soccer is a sport in which teams are only as good as their weakest links, but the regulations force clubs to construct top-heavy rosters.

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And a roster that once seemed too top-heavy now has, at least in theory, more potential impact options to bring off the bench.

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"I will take on the top-heavy management that is holding the NHS back and deliver the biggest and most meaningful NHS reform in decades," he said.

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