Deleveraging
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Deleveraging is a verb meaning present participle and gerund of deleverage.
Meaning
present participle and gerund of deleverage.
More Meanings
- The process of something being deleveraged.
Example Sentences
Because it had studied the nature of deleveragings or depressions, the team knew that deleveragings occur when interest rates go to zero and there's an excessive amount of debt.
In October, 2008, at the height of the financial crisis, he circulated a twenty-page essay immodestly titled “A Template for Understanding What’s Going On,” which said the economy faced not just a common recession but a “deleveraging”—a period in which people cut back on borrowing and rebuild their savings—the impact of which would be felt for a generation.
Word Forms
- deleveragings
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include de-gearing, degearing, delinkage, deinvestment, delinking, devalorization.
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