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Top-heavy

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Adjective

1. top-heavy

unstable by being overloaded at the top

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Top-heavy

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adjective
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

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Top-heavy

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adjective
too heavy at the top for the base below, so as to be likely to fall over or collapse
also used figuratively, as of an organization with too many executives

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Top-heavy

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adj. top-heav·i·er, top-heav·i·est
1. Likely to topple because of an uneven distribution of weight, with the majority being at the top.
2. Accounting Overcapitalized.
3. Having a disproportionately large number of administrators.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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