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deleverages

deleverages is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 deleverages

What is deleverages the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Deleverages is the third-person singular simple present indicative of deleverage.

Words near deleverages in the dictionary

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

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