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
But the best way to impose discipline on private credit is to let Adam Smith punish those who were overleveraged or took the wrong risks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 6, 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
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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