OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 2174

overweight

/ˌəʊvəˈweɪt/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
con sobrepeso • tener sobrepeso
Having a higher weight, especially body fat, than what is generally considered healthy for a given body type and height.
Before her diet, Jane was noticeably overweight, but she shed five kilos in the next two months.
con demasiada pesadura • con exceso de peso • con pesantez excesiva • tener demasiado pesor • tener exceso de pesadez • tener pesadumbre excesiva
Weighing more than what is allowed for safety or legal commerce.
All States allow oversized vehicles if a special permit is obtained, although most States will grant overweight permits only for non-divisible loads.
He got as far as the first weigh station, where troopers found his truck to be overweight and threatened to pull him off the road.
📚 noun • entry_id 2175

overweight

/ˌəʊvəˈweɪt/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
demasiado pesor • exceso de pesantez • pesadura excesiva • sobrepeso
An excess of weight.
It is clear that a bird would certainly be grounded by overweight if it retained eggs in the body and discharged them in large numbers at one time, like a turtle[.]
[…] and shall pay not only the amount of the permit fee for overlength, overheight, overwidth or overweight as might be due, but an additional civil penalty of fifty dollars for th…
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