overleverage

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *úp

Proto-Indo-European *-er

Proto-Indo-European *upér

Proto-Germanic *uber

Old English ofer-

Middle English over-

English over-

English leverage

English overleverage

From over- + leverage.

Noun

overleverage (uncountable)

1. Excessive leverage.

Verb

overleverage (third-person singular simple present overleverages, present participle overleveraging, simple past and past participle overleveraged)

1. (finance, transitive) To leverage excessively.

   The company was severely overleveraged.

   • 2009 January 20, John Collins Rudolf, “Banks Foreclose on Builders With Perfect Records”, in The New York Times‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 November 2022:

     “Yes, there was overleveraging in the industry.