Adjective
Of an inappropriately or unusually low weight.
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He's so underweight he's had to buy smaller clothes.
He's thirty pounds underweight.
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The market trader was fined for selling underweight bags of fruit.
Not too heavy for an intended purpose.
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The suitcase is just slightly underweight; I'll let it on the plane.
Being less invested in a particular area than market wisdom suggests.
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The fund is underweight in mining.
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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.
Noun
The state or quality of being underweight.
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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.
An underweight person.
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An underweight investment.
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Further, structured managers usually attempt to hit their lower targets by relying on a relatively large number of small active deviations (i.e., overweights and underweights).
Consider a conventional long-only portfolio with underweights on holdings the investment manager does not like and overweights on holdings the manager does like.
Verb
To underestimate the weight of.
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To give insufficient weight to (a consideration); to underestimate the importance of.
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To invest in less than conventional wisdom would dictate.
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Although the portfolio overweights the German market, it underweights German marks.
Adjective
being very thin
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a child with skinny freckled legs
a long scrawny neck
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pale bony hands