overleveraged
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8.7
- adjective
- /ˌoʊvərˈlɛvərɪdʒd/
- Specialized
:
sobregirado
- Many investors suffered large losses when the overleveraged company declared bankruptcy.
Examples
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Treasury rates will start climbing, and the era of cheap money will end, making it harder for overleveraged consumers, businesses, and governments to service their debt.
Blog text (21) -
You're gonna be overleveraged and you're gonna have debt, uh, up to your ears and I don't advise it.
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You won't see a widespread housing rebound in an economy in which 600,000 jobs a month are lost and foreclosures ravage the most overleveraged areas.
Blog text (25) -
These overleveraged allies learned that trusting America's word to extend beyond a presidential term is a dangerous gamble—one they have just lost.
Academic text (2009) -
After months of financial stress, the overleveraged families faced the threat of losing their homes.
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The overleveraged project failed to secure additional funding and was ultimately abandoned.
Synonyms
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5.6
To spend more money than you can afford
Antonyms
How Indebted
- Specialized
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7.7
- Specialized
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8.7
Surface Forms
Morphology
overleveraged = overleverage (transparent) = over + leverage + ed
Formed by adding the regular adjectival/past participle suffix '-ed' to 'overleverage', which itself transparently combines 'over-' (excess) + 'leverage' (use of debt).
Etymology
The word overleveraged starts with over- meaning 'too much' and comes from lever and leverage, words about a simple tool used 'to lift' or get more power. So to be overleveraged is to have used borrowed money like a lever 'too much', which makes it hard to pay your debts.