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LBO

LBO is the initialism of leveraged buyout.

Meaning of leveraged buyout

Noun

leveraged buyout (plural leveraged buyouts)

  1. A transaction in which a business firm, or a controlling share of a firm, is purchased using money which was borrowed by pledging all or some of the firm's assets as collateral.
    • To pay for Norton Simon, Mahoney and his fellow investors plan to employ a maneuver known as the leveraged buyout. They will borrow the necessary cash primarily from banks, using the company's assets as collateral.1983 June 20, “Private Lives”, in Time
    Synonyms:
    LBO

Forms of LBO

pluralLBOs

Questions about LBO

What is LBO the initialism of?
LBO is the initialism of leveraged buyout.

Words near LBO in the dictionary

  1. LBLs
  2. lbm
  3. LBMA
  4. LBMs
  5. LBNL
  6. LBO
  7. LBOs
  8. LBP
  9. LBR
  10. lbs
  11. lbs.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: LBO (page history and authors); leveraged buyout (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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