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top-heavy

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Definition of top-heavy

adjective

  • 1disproportionately heavy at the top so as to be in danger of toppling: double-decker carriages proved to be unsafe and top-heavy
  • 2(of an organization) having a disproportionately large number of senior administrative staff: a top-heavy bureaucracy

Derivatives

top-heavily

adverb

top-heaviness

noun

top-heavy in other Oxford dictionaries

Definition of top-heavy in the US English dictionary
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