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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
overweight
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
grossly overweight
▪ Lambert was grossly overweight.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
grossly
▪ In the inevitable lecture series that followed, few would be intrigued by a grossly overweight, fortyish prude.
slightly
▪ Two young men, both slightly overweight, have lost their strong Liver pool accents during their years in the secure units.
▪ But why treat slightly overweight people who have no other signs of illness?
▪ You often find, for example, that teenage girls who are just slightly overweight see themselves as massively obese.
■ NOUN
people
▪ These would almost certainly be the overweight people, and this is something you can observe for yourself in almost any restaurant.
▪ But why treat slightly overweight people who have no other signs of illness?
▪ The overweight people would eat more rapidly than the slim people.
▪ This has been shown in several scientific experiments which invariably indicate that overweight people eat more quickly than slim people.
▪ The overweight people in this experiment, however, kept eating at the same fast pace throughout the meal.
▪ The overweight people tend to eat in a non-stop motion.
▪ The more heavily overweight people are, the more swiftly they can shed surplus fat on a slimming diet.
▪ Breathing is affected and bronchitis is more likely to occur in overweight people.
woman
▪ Take the example of a very overweight woman with high blood pressure and angina whose cholesterol level is normal.
▪ Suddenly this flabby and overweight woman decided to do what younger and more athletic daredevils had shrunk from doing.
▪ I remember still, though, a photograph of nude, overweight women being made to run through a wet courtyard.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ overweight luggage
▪ I'm 15 pounds overweight.
▪ My mother is about 50 pounds overweight.
▪ People who are grossly overweight are more likely to suffer from high blood pressure.
▪ The doctor said I was slightly overweight and that I needed more exercise.
▪ The majority of overweight people who diet tend to gain the weight back within a few years.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Five feet six, he was overweight for his height and his body resembled a large turnip in shape.
▪ He says he's a ton overweight.
▪ I am very well aware of the sensitivity of anyone who is overweight.
▪ If you are female and less than one stone overweight.
▪ It can often arise even when people are a mere few pounds overweight.
▪ Melissa Kirk Berkeley For the record, I am an overweight male or, if you prefer, a fat guy.
▪ Suddenly this flabby and overweight woman decided to do what younger and more athletic daredevils had shrunk from doing.
▪ This sets a bad example to teenagers, many of whom are overweight and eat too much junk food.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Overweight

Overweight \O"ver*weight`\, n.

  1. Weight over and above what is required by law or custom.

  2. Superabundance of weight; preponderance.

Overweight

Overweight \O"ver*weight"\, a.

  1. Overweighing; excessive. [Obs.] ``Of no overweight worth.''
    --Fuller.

  2. Having a weight in excess of what is normal, proper, or expected; as, the doctor recommends dieting to all his overweight patients; overweight luggage will incur an extra charge.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
overweight

"in excess of proper or ordinary weight," 1630s, from over- + weight (n.). Of persons, as a noun, "obesity" from 1917.

Wiktionary
overweight

  1. 1 (context of a person English) heavier than what is generally considered healthy for a given body type and height. 2 (context transportation legal of a vehicle English) weighing more than what is allowed for safety or legal commerce 3 (context investment finance followed by a noun or prepositional phrase indicating a security or type of security English) Having a portfolio relatively heavily invested in. n. 1 (context chiefly transport legal healthcare English) An excess of weight. 2 (context investment finance English) A security or class of securities in which one has a heavy concentration. v

  2. To place excessive weight or emphasis on; to overestimate the importance of. (from 17th

  3. )

WordNet
overweight

  1. adj. usually describes a large person who is fat but has a large frame to carry it [syn: fleshy, heavy]

  2. n. the property of excessive fatness [syn: corpulence, stoutness, adiposis]

Wikipedia
Overweight (stock market)

Within the stock market, the term overweight can refer to two different contexts.

1) Overweight as part of a three-tiered rating system, along with " underweight" and "equal weight", is used by financial analysts to indicate a particular stock's attractiveness. If a stock is recommended to be "overweight", the analyst opines that the stock is better value for money than others.

2) An investment portfolio judged to be overweight indicates that an investor holds proportionately more than the benchmark weight of a certain asset (a share, bond, industry/sector, country, currency, or asset class, etc.).

Overweight

Overweight is having more body fat than is optimally healthy. Being overweight is common especially where food supplies are plentiful and lifestyles are sedentary.

Excess weight has reached epidemic proportions globally, with more than 1 billion adults being either overweight or obese in 2003. In 2013 this increased to more than 2 billion. Increases have been observed across all age groups.

A healthy body requires a minimum amount of fat for proper functioning of the hormonal, reproductive, and immune systems, as thermal insulation, as shock absorption for sensitive areas, and as energy for future use. But the accumulation of too much storage fat can impair movement, flexibility, and alter appearance of the body.

Usage examples of "overweight".

The bespeckled, pimply-faced, overweight, underweight, dateless, womanless, goofiest of the goofy, were the undisputed, unchallenged kings of the entire freaking Valley!

When he reached them, though, he discovered the senior officer there was an overage, overweight captain named Rudninku, whose command consisted of three understrength companies.

I said, nodding toward a bald, overweight man in his mid-forties eating a bagel with scallion cream cheese.

Pansy Stalder was forty-eight years old, had long stringy red hair, was fifty pounds overweight causing her to waddle when she walked and wore dresses that were too short and too tight.

Yvonne was twenty-five, slightly overweight but cheerful and at299 tractive, with long blond hair, innocent blue eyes and a milk-androses skin.

There was an assortment of shapes, too: deranged trapezoids, overweight butterflies, giant beer cans.

Medium height, thick build which might show overweight but for the superb cut of his uniform, Beaumont made an imposing figure.

From that vantage point, he saw a pitifully overweight man, the flesh hanging sad inches over his beltline, more than just pudgy, shadowing into obesity, promising heart disease and kidney weakness, and all of the other flesh failures that obesity brought into existence.

And now look at him: a boozy, bemedaled, overweight ghost of an officer.

Anyone sharp-eyed enough to have caught sight of the occupants of the Mercedes that evening as it sped through the centre of Fettlesham in the direction of Fettlesham Royal Infirmary would have thought they were hallucinating: an ageing German admiral with a handlebar moustache was at the wheel of the car, a heavily bemedalled SS officer was in the passenger seat, and an overweight nun with crimson lips and sky-blue eye-shadow was sitting in the back gesticulating.

A courtship was taking place in front of her, between her little bald gynecologist and her overweight movie-star friend in the middle of the worst crisis of her life, and neither one of them cared about her.

He was overweight, and despite the fact that he was smooth on top, the hairiest man Carlos had ever seen.

Knoxville before being toppled by the usual blow scandal, fed her the questions and gave orders to their cameraman, the aging, overweight hepcat Barney Lumpen, forty-three, who could do all that stuff in his sleep and never listened to the interviews.

Ortega was short and slightly overweight, his stocky frame and broad, high-cheekboned face reflecting his Slavic and Mesoamerican ancestry.

In the same study, overweight but nondiabetic individuals had a 40 percent decrease in their elevated insulin levels.