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"3": "weight"
},
"expansion": "under- + weight",
"name": "prefix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "under- + weight.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "underweights",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "underweighting",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "underweighted",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "underweighted",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "underweight (third-person singular simple present underweights, present participle underweighting, simple past and past participle underweighted)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English transitive verbs"
],
"glosses": [
"To underestimate the weight of."
],
"links": [
[
"weight",
"weight"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To underestimate the weight of."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English transitive verbs"
],
"glosses": [
"To give insufficient weight to (a consideration); to underestimate the importance of."
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To give insufficient weight to (a consideration); to underestimate the importance of."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"English transitive verbs",
"en:Finance"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2009, Philip Lawton, Todd Jankowski, Investment Performance Measurement, page 419",
"text": "Although the portfolio overweights the German market, it underweights German marks.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To invest in less than conventional wisdom would dictate."
],
"links": [
[
"finance",
"finance#Noun"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive, finance) To invest in less than conventional wisdom would dictate."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
],
"topics": [
"business",
"finance"
]
}
],
"word": "underweight"
}
{
"called_from": "linkages/371",
"msg": "unrecognized linkage prefix: (antonym(s) of “underweight person”): overweight desc=antonym(s) of “underweight person” rest=overweight cls=other cls2=english e1=False e2=True",
"path": [
"underweight"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "underweight",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/2013",
"msg": "more than one value in \"roman\": ru vs. nedovesok",
"path": [
"underweight"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "underweight",
"trace": ""
}
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