top-heavy - Definition from the COMPANIES topic - BUSINESS

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top-heavy
adjective

top-heavy

1 too heavy at the top and therefore likely to fall over

2BBC an organization that is top-heavy has too many managers compared to the number of ordinary workers:

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The company was burdened by a top-heavy bureaucracy.

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