Definition of overleveraged in English:
overleveraged
adjective əʊvəˈliːv(ə)rɪdʒdəʊvəˈlɛv(ə)rɪdʒdˌōvərˈlevərəjd
Finance (of a company) having taken on too much debt.
Example sentencesExamples
- And small companies are not as weighed down as big Japanese companies with large payrolls and overleveraged balance sheets.
- Thus the strain of the adjustment forced on its overleveraged UK operations falls directly on the Tata group in India.
- The currency crashed - and so did overheated markets and over-leveraged economies across Asia.
- While other banks continued to funnel money to over-leveraged conglomerates, he scaled back exposure to them.
- We have seen money inundate the hedge fund community, adding an additional layer of leveraged speculation on top of an already egregiously overleveraged financial system.