underweight

adjective · noun · verbB2

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Tính từ

adjective
Comparative
more underweight
Superlative
most underweight
  1. 1.

    Of an inappropriately or unusually low weight.

    He's so underweight he's had to buy smaller clothes.

    He's thirty pounds underweight.

    The market trader was fined for selling underweight bags of fruit.

  2. 2.

    Not too heavy for an intended purpose.

    The suitcase is just slightly underweight; I'll let it on the plane.

  3. 3.

    (finance) Being less invested in a particular area than market wisdom suggests.

    The fund is underweight in mining.

    2011, Murdoch, S. Foreigners back for Aussie stocks, The Australian "It's a long-run trend of foreign investors -- typically being underweight the banking sector in Australia," Mr Baker said.

Danh từ

noun
Plural noun:
underweights
  1. 1.

    (uncountable)The state or quality of being underweight.

    1996, United States Institute of Medicine Committee on Scientific Evaluation of WIC Nutrition Risk Criteria, WIC Nutrition Risk Criteria: A Scientific Assessment, National Academies Press, →ISBN, page 110, Underweight reflects the body’s thinness, but the term does not necessarily imply the nature and causes of underweight.

  2. 2.

    (countable)An underweight person.

  3. 3.

    (countable)(countable, finance) An underweight investment.

Động từ

verb
V_es/s
underweights
V_ing/Gerund
underweighting
V_ed/pp
underweighted
  1. 1.

    (transitive)To underestimate the weight of.

  2. 2.

    (transitive)To give insufficient weight to (a consideration); to underestimate the importance of.

  3. 3.

    (transitive)(transitive, finance) To invest in less than conventional wisdom would dictate.

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Trái nghĩa

overweightof low weight overweightnot too heavy overweight

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