deleveraging

[dee-lev-er-ij-ing, ‐lee-ver‐]

noun

the act or process of paying off or reducing debt; a decreasing of financial leverage.

deleverage

[dee-lev-er-ij, ‐lee-ver‐]

verb (used without object), de·lev·er·aged, de·lev·er·ag·ing.

to decrease financial leverage by paying off debt: Their balance sheet significantly improved after they deleveraged.

verb (used with object), de·lev·er·aged, de·lev·er·ag·ing.

to reduce the debt of: He drastically deleveraged the company to make it profitable.

noun

an instance of this: The economic crisis has forced a deleverage.

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Examples from the Web for deleveraging

Contemporary Examples of deleveraging

Who bore the brunt of deleveraging during the Great Recession?
Spending and the Great Recession
Megan McArdle
February 6, 2013
In an ideal world, we could spend vast sums of federal dollars to balance out the impact of deleveraging in the private sector.
Coming Soon: The Real Stock Disaster
Reihan Salam
May 7, 2010

British Dictionary definitions for deleveraging

deleverage

verb

finance (of an organization) to reduce the ratio of debt capital to equity capital

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