OVERWEIGHT

Overweight

Overweight is generally defined as having more body fat than is optimally healthy. Being overweight is a common condition, especially where food supplies are plentiful and lifestyles are sedentary.

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overweight

Noun

  1. An excess of weight.
  2. A security or class of securities in which one has a heavy concentration.
    Apple common stock is one of our overweights.

Verb

  1. To place excessive weight or emphasis on; to overestimate the importance of.

Adjective

  1. heavier than what is generally considered healthy for a given body type and height.
  2. weighing more than what is allowed for safety or legal commerce
  3. Having a portfolio relatively heavily invested in.
    Our portfolio is very overweight (in) Asian technology stocks.


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