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delever

delever verb: to reduce leverage, to pay back debts.

Verb

delever (third-person singular simple present delevers, present participle delevering, simple past and past participle delevered)

  1. to reduce leverage, to pay back debts
    • Lenders forced the company to delever.

Forms of delever

third-person singular presentdelevers
present participledelevering
past participledelevered
pastdelevered

Origin of delever

From de- + lever.

Words formed from delever

Questions about delever

What does delever mean?
Delever means to reduce leverage, to pay back debts.
What part of speech is delever?
Delever is a verb.
What is the past tense of delever?
The past tense of delever is delevered.

Words near delever in the dictionary

  1. deleveled
  2. deleveling
  3. delevelled
  4. delevelling
  5. delevels
  6. delever
  7. deleverage
  8. deleveraged
  9. deleverages
  10. deleveraging
  11. deleveragings

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