heavy
- heavy
/'hevi/ adjective
1. large or in large quantities
● a programme of heavy investment overseas
● He suffered heavy losses on the Stock Exchange.
● The government imposed a heavy tax on luxury goods.
♦ heavy costs or heavy expenditure large sums of money that have to be spent
2. referring to a share which has such a high price that small investors are reluctant to buy it (in which case the company may decide to split the shares so as to make them more attractive: in the UK, a share price of £10.00 is considered ‘heavy’, though many shares have higher prices than this)
3. having too many investments in the same type of share
● His portfolio is heavy in banks.
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‘…heavy selling sent many blue chips tumbling in Tokyo yesterday’ [Financial Times]
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