"weighting" is a correct and usable word in written English
It is typically used as a verb meaning to assign values to something in order to give it importance, relevance, or emphasis. For example, you can use it in a sentence like: "We need to weighting our options before making a final decision."
The benefit cap saves little, has proved expensive to administrate, and is in danger of making the Tories look heartless.In this section The flexible Mr Farage After dark London weighting Welfare wedgie Trust me We are sailing Raking it in David Cameron's grand riposte ReprintsWhat, then, was Mr Osborne up to?
In either case, FW wonders whether The Economist's Big Mac index might need re-weighting for, er, weighting.
Weighting the cities by population, and weighting the mix of new and existing properties by floorspace, The Economist has tried to rebuild China's abandoned house-price index (see chart) from its constituent parts.
Rather it is coming from core countries such as France and, to a lesser extent, Germany, where seemingly well-capitalised banks may come out of the asset review looking threadbare.One issue is the "risk weighting" of assets, a process by which banks adjust the size of their capital buffer to account for the riskiness of their lending.
That is more than all of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland combined.In this section The flexible Mr Farage After dark London weighting Welfare wedgie Trust me We are sailing Raking it in David Cameron's grand riposte Reprints.
In the 1980s and 1990s the cult of equity lured many funds into a heavy stockmarket weighting.
But even if bias exists in the system, the remedy cannot be to introduce racial weighting or, indeed, weighting of any sort into the concept of justice for all.
But even with a more even weighting, the authors say, the results would not be much different.A more interesting finding is a clear correlation between a country's rank in BCG's index and the size of its internet economy: the lower the friction, the larger the share of online-related activities as a percentage of GDP.
Yet simply weighting chicken more heavily fails to capture the fact that it is (to many households at least) an inferior product to beef.
More dangerous asset classes like equities have a higher capital charge, although sovereign debt handily retains its "risk-free" weighting (see chart).
