ALL meanings of top-heavy
top-heav·y
T t - adjective top-heavy too heavy on top 1
- adjective top-heavy having the top disproportionately heavy; liable to fall from too great weight above. 1
- adjective top-heavy relatively much heavier or larger above the center or waist than below: a top-heavy wrestler. 1
- adjective top-heavy Finance. having a financial structure overburdened with securities that have priority in the payment of dividends. overcapitalized. 1
- adjective top-heavy Something that is top-heavy is larger or heavier at the top than at the bottom, and might therefore fall over. 0
- adjective top-heavy If you describe a business or other organization as top-heavy, you mean that it has too many senior managers in relation to the number of junior managers or workers. 0
- adjective top-heavy unstable or unbalanced through being overloaded at the top 0
- adjective top-heavy (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 0
- adjective top-heavy (of a business enterprise) having too many executives 0
- adjective top-heavy too heavy at the top for the base below, so as to be likely to fall over or collapse 0