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  • 1Overweight Pooch — Background information Also known as (Big) Pooch Origin New York City, New York and Phoenix, Arizona, United States …

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  • 2Overweight (stock market) — Overweight is part of a three tiered rating system, along with underweight and equal weight , used by financial analysts to indicate a particular stock s attractiveness. If a stock is recommended to be overweight , the analyst opines that the… …

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  • 3Overweight — O ver*weight , a. 1. Overweighing; excessive. [Obs.] Of no overweight worth. Fuller. [1913 Webster] 2. Having a weight in excess of what is normal, proper, or expected; as, the doctor recommends dieting to all his overweight patients; overweight… …

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  • 4Overweight — O ver*weight , n. 1. Weight over and above what is required by law or custom. [1913 Webster] 2. Superabundance of weight; preponderance. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 5overweight — index ponderous Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

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  • 6overweight — (adj.) in excess of proper or ordinary weight, 1630s, from OVER (Cf. over) + WEIGHT (Cf. weight) (n.) …

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  • 7overweight — [adj] heavier than average ample, bulky, corpulent, fat, fleshy, gross, heavy, hefty, huge, massive, obese, outsize, overfed, overstuffed, plump, portly, pudgy, rotund, stout, upholstered*, weighty; concept 491 Ant. skinny, thin, underweight …

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  • 8overweight — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ above a normal, desirable, or permitted weight …

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  • 9overweight — [ō′vər wāt΄; ] for adj., also, & for v., usually [, ō΄vər wāt′] n. more weight than is needed, desired, or allowed; extra or surplus weight adj. above the normal, desirable, or allowed weight vt. OVERWEIGH …

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  • 10Overweight — This article is about the medical term. For the stock market term, see overweight (stock market). Overweight Classification and external resources …

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