deleveraging
deleveraging is the present participle and gerund of deleverage.
Meaning of deleverage
Verb
deleverage (third-person singular simple present deleverages, present participle deleveraging, simple past and past participle deleveraged)
- 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
Noun
deleveraging (countable and uncountable, plural deleveragings)
- The process of something being deleveraged.
- In October, 2008, at the height of the financial crisis, he circulated a twenty-page essay immodestly titled “A Template for Understanding What’s Going On,” which said the economy faced not just a common recession but a “deleveraging”—a period in which people cut back on borrowing and rebuild their...2011 July 18, John Cassidy, “Mastering the Machine”, in The New Yorker, →ISSN
- Because it had studied the nature of deleveragings or depressions, the team knew that deleveragings occur when interest rates go to zero and there's an excessive amount of debt.2012, Maneet Ahuja, The Alpha Masters, page 14
Forms of deleveraging
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Questions about deleveraging
- What does deleveraging mean?
- Deleveraging means the process of something being deleveraged.
- What is deleveraging the present participle and gerund of?
- Deleveraging is the present participle and gerund of deleverage.
- What part of speech is deleveraging?
- Deleveraging is a noun.
- What is the plural of deleveraging?
- The plural of deleveraging is deleveragings.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: deleveraging (page history and authors); deleverage (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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