top-heavy
Use Top-heavy in a sentence
i adjective
1.
having the top disproportionately heavy; liable to fall from too great weight above.
2.
relatively much heavier or larger above the center or waist than below: a top-heavy wrestler.
3.
Finance.
a.
having a financial structure overburdened with securities that have priority in the payment of dividends.
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| top-heavy | |
| —adj | |
| 1. | unstable or unbalanced through being overloaded at the top |
| 2. | finance (of an enterprise or its capital structure) characterized by or containing too much debt capital in relation to revenue or profit so that too little is left over for dividend distributions; overcapitalized |
| 3. | (of a business enterprise) having too many executives |
| top-'heavily | |
| —adv | |
| top-'heaviness | |
| —n | |
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Top-heavy
is always a great word to know.
So is quincunx. Does it mean:
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
| a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare. |
Example sentences
Prepare your home by securing bookcases and other top-heavy objects to the wall, and store large and heavy items on lower shelves.
The result was a top-heavy economy with more and more money flowing into increasingly unstable and mysterious instruments.
Flexible straps, for example, can be used to secure top-heavy furniture so the objects don't fall over during an earthquake.
The military was everywhere burdened by a top-heavy bureaucracy, with too many layers of staff that needed pampering.
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