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overleverage

overleverage noun: excessive leverage.

Noun

overleverage (uncountable)

  1. Excessive leverage.

Verb

overleverage (third-person singular simple present overleverages, present participle overleveraging, simple past and past participle overleveraged)

  1. (transitive) To leverage excessively.
    • The company was severely overleveraged.
    • “Yes, there was overleveraging in the industry.2009 January 20, John Collins Rudolf, “Banks Foreclose on Builders With Perfect Records”, in New York Times

Forms of overleverage

third-person singular presentoverleverages
present participleoverleveraging
past participleoverleveraged
pastoverleveraged

Origin of overleverage

From over- + leverage.

Questions about overleverage

What does overleverage mean?
Overleverage means excessive leverage.
What part of speech is overleverage?
Overleverage can be a noun or a verb.

Words near overleverage in the dictionary

  1. overleveled
  2. overleveling
  3. overlevelled
  4. overlevelling
  5. overlevels
  6. overleverage
  7. overleveraged
  8. overleverages
  9. overleveraging
  10. overlevered
  11. overlewd

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