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deleveraged

deleveraged is the simple past and past participle of deleverage.

Meaning of deleverage

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

Questions about deleveraged

What is deleveraged the simple past and past participle of?
Deleveraged is the simple past and past participle of deleverage.

Words near deleveraged in the dictionary

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

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