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单词 weighting
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Definition of weighting in English:

weighting

noun ˈweɪtɪŋˈweɪdɪŋ
mass noun
  • 1Allowance or adjustment made in order to take account of special circumstances or compensate for a distorting factor.

    each score is then multiplied by the appropriate weighting, giving a weighted score
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The weighting of the income thresholds will also target giving medical cards to more children and people with disabilities.
    • Two, European markets have a high weighting in telecom stocks - even higher than the U.S. market - and these stocks have taken it on the chin of late.
    • He believed that through careful weighting, online surveys could be projected to the national population, and projected accurately.
    • The feedback system fails because it gives equal weighting to non-paying buyers and the unpaid sellers.
    • Such an approach avoids artificial weighting of variables and emphasizes the main sources of variance.
    Synonyms
    concession, reduction, decrease, deduction, discount, rebate, refund, repayment
    1. 1.1British An extra amount of wages or salary paid especially to allow for a higher cost of living in a particular area.
      London weighting of £1,750 is payable
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Workers are being balloted separately on national pay and the London weighting allowance.
      • At one level the issue of London weighting is simply about the extra costs faced by workers in the capital, notably for housing and travel.
      • The result for the ballot on London weighting was due on Friday.
      • Frustrated Council workers went on strike this week in a protest over their London weighting allowance.
      • The strike is the latest step in the campaign against the employers' ten-year freeze of the London weighting allowance.
      • University workers are pressing for an improvement in their London weighting allowance.
      • He said postal workers in London were in line for a 14.5 pert cent basic pay rise and increases in London weighting of up to 12.6 per cent.
      • London weighting is an extra payment that some workers receive to compensate for the higher cost of living in the capital.
    2. 1.2 An allocated proportion of something.
      the company continues to recommend a 35% weighting in bonds
      Example sentencesExamples
      • In our global fund, we've never had as little a weighting in U.S. stocks as we do right now.
      • An appropriate strategy for investors might be to identify 10 or 15 of these quality names and invest in these stocks in equal weighting.
      • They do this by investing in a basket of shares whose weighting is representative of the index overall.
      • Lately, he has been selling stocks as rates have backed up: His weighting is just 7% now.
      • This compares with a weighting of between 50 and 70 per cent in equities for other similar ‘managed’ funds.
      • The fund manager of an index fund sets up a mathematical model that buys and sells shares according to their weighting in the selected index.
      • Most Irish institutions want to have a neutral weighting in all of the largest stocks.
      • Your longer-term strategy should be to build a portfolio that is well diversified and that reduces your weighting in the technological sector.
      • A different weighting of the portfolio would dramatically change the situation.
      • So doubling up on a stock that has fallen, say, 50% and now has a 2.5% weighting doesn't expose clients to more risk than they signed up for.
  • 2Emphasis or priority.

    they will give due weighting to quality as well as price
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The variables selected in Tables 1 and 2 are somewhat arbitrary, and should not necessarily be given equal weighting.
    • While part of this is due to the weighting against small projects, it is also due to our low overall level of spending.
    • What we do not know are the precise weighting of factors that go into why prices increase at any particular time.
    • It depends on their relative weighting of the value of order, justice, liberty, and equality in different conditions.
    • Above all, the report must put a heavy weighting on social education while reaffirming the importance of so-called ‘academic education’.
    • Tenants are themselves undertaking detailed investigations into the suitability of a location and giving this factor a high weighting when deciding on location.
    • The international awards gave equal weighting to strategy, creativity and results.
    • Institutions have started to sell off property because their investment portfolios have a higher than desired weighting in that asset class.
    Synonyms
    precedence, greater importance, preference, precedency, pre-eminence, first place, highest place, predominance, primacy, the lead, weight

Rhymes

grating, plating, rating, slating, uprating
 
 

Definition of weighting in US English:

weighting

nounˈwādiNGˈweɪdɪŋ
  • 1Allowance or adjustment made in order to take account of special circumstances or compensate for a distorting factor.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The feedback system fails because it gives equal weighting to non-paying buyers and the unpaid sellers.
    • He believed that through careful weighting, online surveys could be projected to the national population, and projected accurately.
    • The weighting of the income thresholds will also target giving medical cards to more children and people with disabilities.
    • Such an approach avoids artificial weighting of variables and emphasizes the main sources of variance.
    • Two, European markets have a high weighting in telecom stocks - even higher than the U.S. market - and these stocks have taken it on the chin of late.
    Synonyms
    concession, reduction, decrease, deduction, discount, rebate, refund, repayment
    1. 1.1 An allocated proportion of something, especially an investment.
      the company continues to recommend a 35% weighting in bonds
      Example sentencesExamples
      • A different weighting of the portfolio would dramatically change the situation.
      • In our global fund, we've never had as little a weighting in U.S. stocks as we do right now.
      • They do this by investing in a basket of shares whose weighting is representative of the index overall.
      • This compares with a weighting of between 50 and 70 per cent in equities for other similar ‘managed’ funds.
      • So doubling up on a stock that has fallen, say, 50% and now has a 2.5% weighting doesn't expose clients to more risk than they signed up for.
      • An appropriate strategy for investors might be to identify 10 or 15 of these quality names and invest in these stocks in equal weighting.
      • Lately, he has been selling stocks as rates have backed up: His weighting is just 7% now.
      • Your longer-term strategy should be to build a portfolio that is well diversified and that reduces your weighting in the technological sector.
      • Most Irish institutions want to have a neutral weighting in all of the largest stocks.
      • The fund manager of an index fund sets up a mathematical model that buys and sells shares according to their weighting in the selected index.
    2. 1.2 Emphasis or priority.
      they will give due weighting to quality as well as price
      Example sentencesExamples
      • While part of this is due to the weighting against small projects, it is also due to our low overall level of spending.
      • Tenants are themselves undertaking detailed investigations into the suitability of a location and giving this factor a high weighting when deciding on location.
      • It depends on their relative weighting of the value of order, justice, liberty, and equality in different conditions.
      • What we do not know are the precise weighting of factors that go into why prices increase at any particular time.
      • Institutions have started to sell off property because their investment portfolios have a higher than desired weighting in that asset class.
      • Above all, the report must put a heavy weighting on social education while reaffirming the importance of so-called ‘academic education’.
      • The variables selected in Tables 1 and 2 are somewhat arbitrary, and should not necessarily be given equal weighting.
      • The international awards gave equal weighting to strategy, creativity and results.
      Synonyms
      precedence, greater importance, preference, precedency, pre-eminence, first place, highest place, predominance, primacy, the lead, weight
 
 
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