Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To reduce debt, often by selling assets and using the proceeds to pay creditors.
- intransitive verb To reduce the debt of (a corporation, for example).
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- verb finance To
reduce debt in byrapidly selling assets .
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Examples
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One option for the closed-end companies is to "deleverage" -- that is, sell the securities now juicing returns of the underlying fund and use the proceeds to redeem the preferred shares.
Going -- Slowly 2008
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The second lie is that every company and every individual needs to "deleverage" - that means shed debt, stop spending, and start saving-so that the groundwork for robust growth in the future can be laid.
History News Network 2010
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The second lie is that every company and every individual needs to "deleverage" - that means shed debt, stop spending, and start saving-so that the groundwork for robust growth in the future can be laid.
History News Network 2010
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This activity has occurred even while American households continue to deleverage, that is, pay down their debt.
San Antonio Business News - Local San Antonio News | The San Antonio Business Journal 2010
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Retail customers are continuing to deleverage, which is healthy for the economy in the long term, but will likely lead to a slower recovery than we've seen after other recent recessions.
Financial Sector and Stocks Analysis from Seeking Alpha 2010
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The deleverage was the result of the slower sales, the additional of the CSK store base which has a higher expense structure than the core O'Reilly stores, and $2.5 million of non-cash amortization of trademarks recorded as part of the purchase price allocation.
pfblogs.org: The Ad-Free Personal Finance Blogs Aggregator 2008
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The deleverage was the result of the slower sales, the additional of the CSK store base which has a higher expense structure than the core O'Reilly stores, and $2.5 million of non-cash amortization of trademarks recorded as part of the purchase price allocation.
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The deleverage was the result of the slower sales, the additional of the CSK store base which has a higher expense structure than the core O'Reilly stores, and $2.5 million of non-cash amortization of trademarks recorded as part of the purchase price allocation.
pfblogs.org: The Ad-Free Personal Finance Blogs Aggregator 2008
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The deleverage was the result of the slower sales, the additional of the CSK store base which has a higher expense structure than the core O'Reilly stores, and $2.5 million of non-cash amortization of trademarks recorded as part of the purchase price allocation.
pfblogs.org: The Ad-Free Personal Finance Blogs Aggregator 2008
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The deleverage was the result of the slower sales, the additional of the CSK store base which has a higher expense structure than the core O'Reilly stores, and $2.5 million of non-cash amortization of trademarks recorded as part of the purchase price allocation.
pfblogs.org: The Ad-Free Personal Finance Blogs Aggregator 2008
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