reporting weight
- noun
- Jargon
:
peso de reporte
- The coach recorded each player's reporting weight at the start of training camp.
Examples
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Each player must submit their reporting weight before training begins.
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Her reporting weight was five pounds less than last year, showing off-season progress.
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Athletes are required to declare their reporting weight before participation in the first practice.
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The coach recorded the athletes' reporting weight at the start of the season.
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Each athlete must report their reporting weight before they begin pre-season training.
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The trainer noted down the reporting weight of every player as they arrived for practice.
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At the beginning of the season, the team requires players to announce their reporting weight.
Synonyms
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1.0
A measurement that shows how heavy something is
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How heavy a person is
How Heavy
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- Jargon
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The noun phrase is compositionally built: 'reporting' (present participle of 'report', here meaning to present oneself) functions as a time/participant modifier of 'weight', so a learner can infer it means the weight measured when the person reports. This temporal, adjectival use of a verb to modify a noun is a common and cross-linguistically familiar pattern, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents should be able to derive the intended meaning.
Etymology
The phrase reporting weight comes from the image of athletes reporting, meaning 'arriving' to training camp, and stepping on a scale so their weight is measured right then. So it means the body weight recorded when a player first shows up for practice.