- overleveraging
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if a company or country is overleveraged, it has borrowed too much money and cannot make payments on the debt; = OVERBORROWED; , overgeared Ame:
• The banks are taking over more real estate from overleveraged developers and putting it on the market.
— overleverage noun [uncountable] :• Overleverage and the economic slump have combined to depress the industry.
— overleveraging noun [uncountable] :• the overleveraging of corporate America
Financial and business terms. 2012.