overleveraged
/ˈoʊvɚlˈɛvɹɪdʒd/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.22 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "If there is one axiom of today's Pigovian pessimism it is the idea that after decades of decadent reliance on debt to goose up consumption, US consumers are structurally over leveraged. And that it may take a decade or more of pain to unwind the damage, during which time US consumption and GDP growth will be pitifully slow."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Germanic *uber Old English ofer- Middle English over- English over- English leveraged English overleveraged From over- + leveraged.
Inflected Forms
more overleveraged (comparative)
most overleveraged (superlative)
over-leveraged (alternative)