Overweight

/ˌəʊvəˈweɪt/ · adjective

Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

1. (of a person) Having a higher weight, especially body fat, than what is generally considered healthy for a given body type and height.
2. (transport, law, of a vehicle) Weighing more than what is allowed for safety or legal commerce.
3. (investment, finance, followed by a noun or prepositional phrase indicating a security or type of security) Having a portfolio relatively heavily invested in.
4. (uncountable, chiefly transport, law) An excess of weight.
5. (uncountable, healthcare) The condition of being overweight.
6. (countable) An overweight person.
7. (countable, investment, finance) A security or class of securities in which one has a heavy concentration.
8. (transitive) To weigh down: to put too heavy a burden on.

Example Sentences

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

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.

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

[…] 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[.]

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• more overweight
• most overweight
• overweights
• overweighting
• overweighted

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