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delevering

delevering is the present participle and gerund of delever.

Meaning of delever

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.

Questions about delevering

What is delevering the present participle and gerund of?
Delevering is the present participle and gerund of delever.

Words near delevering in the dictionary

  1. deleveraged
  2. deleverages
  3. deleveraging
  4. deleveragings
  5. delevered
  6. delevering
  7. delevers
  8. delexical
  9. delexicalisation
  10. delexicalisations
  11. delexicalise

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Adapted from Wiktionary: delevering (page history and authors); delever (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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