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deleverage

deleverage verb: to reduce debt by rapidly selling assets.

Verb

deleverage (third-person singular simple present deleverages, present participle deleveraging, simple past and past participle deleveraged)

  1. To reduce debt by rapidly selling assets.
    • Because the country is exposed to large interest rate shocks, this triggers a strong precautionary-saving response: households deleverage fast and massively.2026, Hausmann-Guil, Guillermo, “Approximating around the Stochastic Steady State Matters: Rethinking Uncertainty Shocks in Small Open Economies”, in Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, →DOI

Forms of deleverage

third-person singular presentdeleverages
present participledeleveraging
past participledeleveraged
pastdeleveraged

Origin of deleverage

From de- + leverage.

Questions about deleverage

What does deleverage mean?
Deleverage means to reduce debt by rapidly selling assets.
What part of speech is deleverage?
Deleverage is a verb.
What is the past tense of deleverage?
The past tense of deleverage is deleveraged.

Words near deleverage in the dictionary

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

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