underweight
n. 重量不足 a. 重量不足的
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The state or quality of being underweight.
不可数 可数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.
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An underweight person.
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An underweight investment.
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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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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.
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Not too heavy for an intended purpose.
The suitcase is just slightly underweight; I'll let it on the plane.
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Being less invested in a particular area than market wisdom suggests.
商务 金融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.
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From under- + weight.
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