underweight
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Tính từ
adjective- 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.
Not too heavy for an intended purpose.
The suitcase is just slightly underweight; I'll let it on the plane.
- 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- 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.
(countable)An underweight person.
- 3.
(countable)(countable, finance) An underweight investment.
Động từ
verb- 1.
(transitive)To underestimate the weight of.
- 2.
(transitive)To give insufficient weight to (a consideration); to underestimate the importance of.
- 3.
(transitive)(transitive, finance) To invest in less than conventional wisdom would dictate.
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