underweight
adjective
- bias or underload
Wiktionary
adj
Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰí Proto-Indo-European *-ér Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰér Proto-Germanic *under Proto-West Germanic *undar Old English under- Middle English under- English under- English weight English underweight From under- + weight.
- Of an inappropriately or unusually low weight.
“He's so underweight he's had to buy smaller clothes.”
“He's thirty pounds underweight.”
- Not too heavy for an intended purpose.
“The suitcase is just slightly underweight; I'll let it on the plane.”
- 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.”
noun
Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰí Proto-Indo-European *-ér Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰér Proto-Germanic *under Proto-West Germanic *undar Old English under- Middle English under- English under- English weight English underweight From under- + weight.
- 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.”
- An underweight person.
- An underweight investment.
“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
Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰí Proto-Indo-European *-ér Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰér Proto-Germanic *under Proto-West Germanic *undar Old English under- Middle English under- English under- English weight English underweight From under- + weight.
- To underestimate the weight of.
- To give insufficient weight to (a consideration); to underestimate the importance of.
- To invest in less than conventional wisdom would dictate.
“Although the portfolio overweights the German market, it underweights German marks.”