leveraged
adjective
lev·er·aged
ˈle-və-rijd 
ˈlē-;
ˈlev-rijd,
ˈlēv-
1
: having a high proportion of debt relative to equity
2
of the purchase of a company
: made with borrowed money that is secured by the assets of the company bought
a leveraged buyout
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And Bank for International Settlements General Manager Pablo Hernández de Cos warned in a speech that there was too much liquidity being offered to nonbank financial institutions to do leveraged trades on government debt.
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Jim Edwards, Fortune, 3 Dec. 2025
The downturn accelerated when roughly $19 billion in leveraged bets were wiped out.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 2 Dec. 2025
The declines come amid liquidations of highly leveraged crypto positions, with traders pulling out of risk-on investments into risk-off assets such as gold due to mixed economic data and worries about valuations in artificial intelligence stocks.
—Liz Napolitano, CNBC, 26 Nov. 2025
The most common way for an offense to force such a situation is the pick-and-roll, which almost always means having its best scorer call for a screen, causing the defense to make a series of rapid-fire decisions from a leveraged position.
—Rohan Nadkarni, NBC news, 21 Nov. 2025
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Jim Edwards, Fortune, 3 Dec. 2025
The downturn accelerated when roughly $19 billion in leveraged bets were wiped out.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 2 Dec. 2025
The declines come amid liquidations of highly leveraged crypto positions, with traders pulling out of risk-on investments into risk-off assets such as gold due to mixed economic data and worries about valuations in artificial intelligence stocks.
—Liz Napolitano, CNBC, 26 Nov. 2025
The most common way for an offense to force such a situation is the pick-and-roll, which almost always means having its best scorer call for a screen, causing the defense to make a series of rapid-fire decisions from a leveraged position.
—Rohan Nadkarni, NBC news, 21 Nov. 2025
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“Leveraged.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/leveraged. Accessed 10 Dec. 2025.
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