Overleveraged
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Overleveraged is an adjective meaning (economics) Subject to excessive leverage (debt).
Meaning
(economics) Subject to excessive leverage (debt).
Example Sentences
If there is one axiom of today's Pigovian pessimism it is the idea that after decades of decadent reliance on debt to goose up consumption, US consumers are structurally over leveraged. And that it may take a decade or more of pain to unwind the damage, during which time US consumption and GDP growth will be pitifully slow.
Word Forms
- over-leveraged
Antonyms for overleveraged
Common opposites include underleveraged.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include overinvested, overcapitalized, overextended, overbought, overexploitative, oversold.
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