top-heavy
adjective
1
: having the top part too heavy for the lower part
2
: having too high a proportion of administrators
a top-heavy bureaucracy
3
: oversupplied with one element at the expense of others : lacking balance
a novel top-heavy with description
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The impulse to find alternatives to the S&P 500 is being fanned not only by the index’s top-heavy advance but by an economic and monetary backdrop that has defied any effort to interpret it.
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Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 22 June 2024
This bloated, top-heavy, Neanderthal system is completely and totally outdated for today’s needs in our city.
—Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 11 Apr. 2024
Since then, the task force has been criticized for being top-heavy with energy industry representation, with only one environmental advocate.
—Jan Ellen Spiegel, Hartford Courant, 11 Mar. 2024
In such a top-heavy sector, small businesses and entrepreneurs have a hard time breaking in—many, according to news reports, have simply given up.
—Ganesh Sitaraman, Foreign Affairs, 11 Aug. 2020
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Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 22 June 2024
This bloated, top-heavy, Neanderthal system is completely and totally outdated for today’s needs in our city.
—Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 11 Apr. 2024
Since then, the task force has been criticized for being top-heavy with energy industry representation, with only one environmental advocate.
—Jan Ellen Spiegel, Hartford Courant, 11 Mar. 2024
In such a top-heavy sector, small businesses and entrepreneurs have a hard time breaking in—many, according to news reports, have simply given up.
—Ganesh Sitaraman, Foreign Affairs, 11 Aug. 2020
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“Top-heavy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/top-heavy. Accessed 7 Jul. 2024.
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