underweight

Etymology
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Adjective

 * 1) 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.
 * 1) Not too heavy for an intended purpose.
 * The suitcase is just slightly underweight; I'll let it on the plane.
 * 1)  Being less invested in a particular area than market wisdom suggests.
 * The fund is underweight in mining.
 * 1) * 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.

Translations

 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Greek:
 * Polish: mający niedowagę, niedoważony
 * Russian:, ,
 * Spanish: con infrapeso

Noun

 * 1)  The state or quality of being underweight.
 * 2) * 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 978-0-309-05385-3, page 110,
 * Underweight reflects the body’s thinness, but the term does not necessarily imply the nature and causes of underweight.
 * 1)  An underweight person.
 * 2)  An underweight investment.

Translations

 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Polish: niedowaga
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish: infrapeso

Verb

 * 1)  To underestimate the weight of.
 * 2)  To give insufficient weight to (a consideration); to underestimate the importance of.
 * 3)  To invest in less than conventional wisdom would dictate.