He's so underweight he's had to buy smaller clothes.

The market trader was fined for selling underweight bags of fruit.

The suitcase is just slightly underweight; I'll let it on the plane.

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.

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.

Although the portfolio overweights the German market, it underweights German marks.

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