Usually means: Excess body weight for health.
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We found 47 dictionaries that define the word overweight:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. overweight: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. overweight: Merriam-Webster
  3. overweight: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. overweight: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. overweight: Collins English Dictionary
  6. overweight: Vocabulary.com
  7. Overweight, overweight: Wordnik
  8. overweight: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. overweight: Wiktionary
  10. overweight: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. overweight: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. overweight: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. overweight: Dictionary.com
  14. overweight: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. overweight: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Overweight (stock market), Overweight: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Overweight: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. overweight: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. overweight: Rhymezone
  20. overweight: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. overweight: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. overweight: FreeDictionary.org
  23. overweight: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. overweight: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. overweight: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary
  3. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  4. Overweight: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  5. Overweight: Investopedia
  6. overweight: Legal dictionary
  7. Overweight: Financial dictionary
  8. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. overweight: Encyclopedia

Medicine (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. overweight: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Overweight: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Overweight: Merck Manuals
  5. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Diabetes Dictionary (No longer online)
  7. Overweight: MEDLINE plus Illustrated Medical Encyclopedia
  8. overweight: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  9. overweight: Medical dictionary
  10. Obesity, Physical Activity, and Weight-control Glossary (No longer online)
  11. Overweight: Drug Medical Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See overweighted as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (of a person) Having a higher weight, especially body fat, than what is generally considered healthy for a given body type and height.
adjective:  (transport, law, of a vehicle) Weighing more than what is allowed for safety or legal commerce.
adjective:  (investment, finance, followed by a noun or prepositional phrase indicating a security or type of security) Having a portfolio relatively heavily invested in.
noun:  (uncountable, chiefly transport, law) An excess of weight.
noun:  (uncountable, healthcare) The condition of being overweight.
noun:  (countable) An overweight person.
noun:  (countable, investment, finance) A security or class of securities in which one has a heavy concentration.
verb:  (transitive) To weigh down: to put too heavy a burden on.
verb:  (transitive) To place excessive weight or emphasis on; to overestimate the importance of.

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