deleverage
To reduce debt by rapidly selling assets.
Verb
- To reduce debt by rapidly selling assets.
- Because the country is exposed to large interest rate shocks, this triggers a strong precautionary-saving response: households deleverage fast and massively. - 2026, Hausmann-Guil, Guillermo, “Approximating around the...
Origin
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *de Proto-Indo-European *-h₁ Proto-Indo-European *déh₁ Proto-Italic *dē Latin dē Latin dē-der. English de- English leverage English deleverage From de- + leverage.