MEANING
Reduce borrowing or financial exposure relative to available capital.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- deleverage a balance sheet
- firms deleverage
On the page
The firm deleveraged by selling nonessential assets and repaying short-term debt.
Banks began to deleverage after losses reduced their capital buffers.
Related words
Word forms
- Base
- deleverage
- Past tense
- deleveraged
- Past participle
- deleveraged
- Present participle
- deleveraging
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- deleverage
- Present continuous
- am/is/are deleveraging
- Present perfect
- have/has deleveraged
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been deleveraging
- Past
- deleveraged
- Past continuous
- was/were deleveraging
- Past perfect
- had deleveraged
- Past perfect continuous
- had been deleveraging
- Future
- will deleverage
- Future continuous
- will be deleveraging
- Future perfect
- will have deleveraged
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been deleveraging
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: economics / business / social science. Forms: deleverage; deleverages; deleveraged; deleveraged; deleveraging Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: financial analysis, risk evaluation, comparison, explanation. Disciplines: economics, finance, business. Commonness: uncommon. Third-person singular: deleverages.
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