overleverage

overleverage

English

Etymology

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úp
Proto-Indo-European *-er
Proto-Indo-European *upér
Proto-Germanic *uber
Old English ofer-
Middle English over-
English over-
English leverage
English overleverage

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