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- noun The state or condition of being
topheavy .
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Examples
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At the same time, eyebrows have been raised over the organization's administrative topheaviness as well as the abandonment of a professionally-driven endowment effort.
Archive 2007-03-01 Dan 2007
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I pointed out way back in March, 2007, that there was gossip in Trenton circles of the difficulties and that eyebrows were raised about administrative topheaviness and the abandonment of a professionally-driven endowment effort.
Plainfield Health Center: Layoffs sign of fiscal woes? Dan 2007
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At the same time, eyebrows have been raised over the organization's administrative topheaviness as well as the abandonment of a professionally-driven endowment effort.
Plainfield Health Center in trouble? Dan 2007
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I pointed out way back in March, 2007, that there was gossip in Trenton circles of the difficulties and that eyebrows were raised about administrative topheaviness and the abandonment of a professionally-driven endowment effort.
Archive 2007-10-01 Dan 2007
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Even the defects, if so they may be called, are there, and a slight topheaviness of the figures serves but to accentuate the likeness.
Chats on Old Lace and Needlework Emily Leigh Lowes
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It was this latest manœuvre that aggravated the natural topheaviness of the chair, and endangered its balance.
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The most popular approach currently is to shuffle money around quickly, so shareholders can take advantage of the short-term profits generated by squeezing the workers, then get out before the company gets caught breaking a law or just crumples of its own topheaviness.
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The most popular approach currently is to shuffle money around quickly, so shareholders can take advantage of the short-term profits generated by squeezing the workers, then get out before the company gets caught breaking a law or just crumples of its own topheaviness.
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He meant that capitalism would fall on its own accord from bloat and topheaviness, and that Communists would be shovel-ready to pile dirt on the corpse.
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Their forms, however, during about three minutes of visibility, showed no change, although of so apparently unstable a character as to suggest to Arago "mountains on the point of crumbling into ruins" through topheaviness. [
A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition 1874
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