overweight

adj

1. Having a higher weight, especially body fat, than what is generally considered healthy for a given body type and height.

   “Before her diet, Jane was noticeably overweight, but she shed five kilos in the next two months.”

2. Weighing more than what is allowed for safety or legal commerce.

   “All States allow oversized vehicles if a special permit is obtained, although most States will grant overweight permits only for non-divisible loads.”

   “He got as far as the first weigh station, where troopers found his truck to be overweight and threatened to pull him off the road.”

   “The records did not reveal any previous encounters with severe turbulence. The three major alterations/repairs involving the wing were either far outboard of the strut wing station, or were performed on the right wing. Two overweight landings had been recorded since the aircraft was put into service with Evergreen. In both cases, an inspection of the airplane was accomplished in accordance with the Boeing Maintenance Manual.”

   “Postaccident examination of the vehicle indicated, for example, that the driver had not adequately maintained his logbook and that his vehicle had been overweight for travel in Indiana.”

3. Having a portfolio relatively heavily invested in.

   “Our portfolio is very overweight (in) Asian technology stocks.”

noun

1. (uncountable)An excess of weight.

   “[…] and shall pay not only the amount of the permit fee for overlength, overheight, overwidth or overweight as might be due, but an additional civil penalty of fifty dollars for the first offense, one hundred dollars for the second offense and one hundred fifty dollars for each additional offense; […]”

   “It is clear that a bird would certainly be grounded by overweight if it retained eggs in the body and discharged them in large numbers at one time, like a turtle[.]”

2. (uncountable)The condition of being overweight.

   “SCHOOL MEAL ISSUES FOR CHILDREN AT RISK FOR OVERWEIGHT”

3. (countable)An overweight person.

   “The study provides up-to-date facts on the variety of diseases, vascular, metabolic, hepatic, and other, which are responsible for the excess mortality of overweights.”

   “Singh found that the normal weight figures were judged more attractive than the underweights‚ who were more attractive than the overweights.”

   “Subjects were grouped as Group 1 and Group 2 according to VAI, and normals, overweights and obeses according to BMI.”

4. (countable)A security or class of securities in which one has a heavy concentration.

   “Apple common stock is one of our overweights.”

verb

1. (transitive)To weigh down: to put too heavy a burden on.

   “Such things are not for us to know. Knowledge is to the strong, and we are weak. Too much wisdom would perchance blind our imperfect sight, and too much strength would make us drunk, and over-weight our feeble reason till it fell and we were drowned in the depths of our own vanity.”

   “By noon the fat, perspiring, and importantly busy merchant arrives, overweighted with red blood, fat, and responsibility, for a game of manille or dominoes with three or four old cronies.”

   “Throughout the country there were: rupture of telecommunications, resulting amongst other things from telegraph wires and posts overweighted by snow or struck down by gales; [...].”

2. (transitive)To place excessive weight or emphasis on; to overestimate the importance of.

   “We also over-weight such vaine future conjectures, which infant-spirits give us.”

   “Kinnel explained it, the problem at Select High Income was that it overweighted mortgage bonds and underweighted other types of corporate debt, a strategy that backfired when the mortgage market collapsed.”