deleveraging

deleveraging definition - finance
  1. Reducing the amount of debt that is held by a company.
  2. A situation in which traders attempt to sell the same holdings, or position, at the same time. That context was used more frequently during the Asian financial crisis.

Webster's New World Finance and Investment Dictionary Copyright © 2003 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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