top-heavy

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top-heavy

(of a business enterprise) having too many executives

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He had a dusky complexion and a bushy eyebrow, beneath which his eye wore a fixed and somewhat defiant expression; he seemed to be challenging you to insinuate that he was top-heavy. The duchess, judging from her charge to Newman, regarded him as a bore; but this was not apparent from the unchecked flow of her conversation.

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The artist had given it a head that would have been, in an intellectual point of view, top-heavy for Shakespeare.

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If I hadn't Mumps to talk to, I should get top-heavy an' tumble in a fit.

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Our former railways minister was judicially grilled for failure to prune unwanted top-heavy liabilities (on the basis of audit report).

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"At this point, I'm top-heavy with ARChoices clients, but other times I'm top-heavy with Medicaid or private-pay."

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Right now, it's a very top-heavy group of people making decisions.

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including the commanders of the Cambodian Navy and Air Force - have been promoted to deputy commanders-in-chief of the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces, swelling the upper echelons of an already top-heavy military.

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The UN organisation has come under fire for it tardy intervention in some health crisis issues, especially the Ebola outbreak in West Africa as well as inefficiency and a top-heavy bureaucracy.

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DENIS BETTS says England's World Cup squad is deliberately top-heavy with forwards to meet the physical challenge of Australia - but insists there is enough flexibility within it to cope with any adversity.