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Meaning of Underweight | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1

Definitions

  1. The state or quality of being underweight.
    uncountable
  2. An underweight person.
    countable
  3. An underweight investment.
    countable

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Examples

“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.”
“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.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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