overleverage
Excessive leverage.
Noun
- Excessive leverage.
Origin
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.
Verb
- To leverage excessively.
- The company was severely overleveraged.
- “Yes, there was overleveraging in the industry. - 2009 January 20, John Collins Rudolf, “Banks Foreclose on Builders With Perfect Records”, in New York Times: