overweight

Etymology

over- + weight

adj

1. (of a person) 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. (transport, law, of a vehicle) 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. 1988, U.S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment, Gearing Up for Safety: Motor Carrier Safety in a Competitive Environment, page 38
   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. 1993, Legacy in the Sand: Chemical Command in Operations Desert Shield & Desert Storm, page 74
   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. 13 October 1993, National Transportation Safety Board, “1.17.1 Maintenance Records”, in Aircraft Accident Report: In-Flight Engine Separation, Japan Airlines, Inc., Flight 46E, Boeing 747-121, N473EV, Anchorage, Alaska, March 31, 1993, archived from the original on 2022-06-17, page 26
   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. 26 July 1999, National Transportation Safety Board, “Operator Actions”, in Railroad Accident Report: Collision of Northern Indiana Commuter Transportation District Train 102 With a Tractor-Trailer, Portage, Indiana, June 18, 1998, archived from the original on 2022-06-17, page 48
3. (investment, finance, followed by a noun or prepositional phrase indicating a security or type of security) Having a portfolio relatively heavily invested in.
   Our portfolio is very overweight (in) Asian technology stocks.

noun

1. (uncountable, chiefly transport, law) 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; […] 1976, Acts of the Legislature, volume 1, Louisiana, page 445
   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[.] 1985, J.D. McDonald, Australian Birds: A Popular Guide to Bird Life, Sydney: Reed Books, page 66
2. (uncountable, healthcare) The condition of being overweight.
   SCHOOL MEAL ISSUES FOR CHILDREN AT RISK FOR OVERWEIGHT 2007, Josephine Martin, Charlotte Oakley, Managing child nutrition programs: leadership for excellence, page 462
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. 1951, Louis Israel Dublin, Mortality Among Insured Overweights in Recent Years, Association of Life Insurance Medical Directors of America, →OCLC, page 28
   Singh found that the normal weight figures were judged more attractive than the underweights‚ who were more attractive than the overweights. 1998, Adrian Furnham, Melanie Dias, Alastair McClelland, “The role of body weight, waist-to-hip ratio, and breast size in judgments of female attractiveness”, in Sex roles, volume 39, number 3, Springer, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 311–326
   Subjects were grouped as Group 1 and Group 2 according to VAI, and normals, overweights and obeses according to BMI. 2014, Ahmet Celik, Edibe Saricicek, Vahap Saricicek, Elif Sahin, Gokhan Ozdemir, Metin Kilinc, Ayten Oguz, Relation between the new anthropometric obesity parameters and inflammatory markers in healthy adult men, SCIRJ
4. (countable, investment, finance) 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.
   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; …. 1962 March, “The New Year Freeze-up on British Railways”, in Modern Railways, page 158
2. (transitive) To place excessive weight or emphasis on; to overestimate the importance of.
   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. January 11 2009, Geraldine Fabrikant, “How Safe Is That Nest Egg, Anyhow?”, in New York Times