overleverage
Americanverb (used with or without object)
Etymology
Origin of overleverage
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There will be a bank or private credit manager that is overleveraged and overexposed to one of these troubled countries or sectors.
From Barron's ● May 1, 2026
Another question for him: Over history, how long have such mechanical margin-call selloffs lasted, and do those assets tend to rebound whether overleveraged traders finally get wiped out?
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 3, 2026
Political operations are often overleveraged and fundraise around the clock to dig themselves out.
From Slate ● Nov. 12, 2024
CreditSights, part of the Fitch Group, described the Adani Group in September 2022, as "overleveraged" and said it had "concerns" over its debt.
From Reuters ● Jan. 21, 2023
“The merger combines two low-margin, overleveraged companies, both of which are facing heightened competitive environments,” ISS wrote in July.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2018
Greed also causes overleveraging: You keep adding to a winning position without moving your stop up to protect profits, then suddenly bad news hits, and what was your biggest winner yesterday wipes you out today.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 28, 2026
By the 2020s, financial organizations like Dealogic and Creditsights also suspected that Adani was overleveraging his debt as he bought up company after company.
From Slate ● Jan. 31, 2023
It is alarming that Ms. Miller demonstrates no awareness of this well-established historical pattern — or the ingrained incentives in the financial system that make overleveraging hard to avoid.
From New York Times ● Apr. 25, 2013
After the credit crunch, the American public was inundated with reports of abuse, fraud, overleveraging and other malfeasance.
From Salon ● Mar. 2, 2011
A transaction like this illustrates two principles of investing in commercial real estate: It pays to go small and to avoid overleveraging.
From Forbes ● Jan. 26, 2011
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