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Deleverage The reduction of financial instruments or borrowed capital previously used to increase the potential return of an investment. It is the opposite of leverage. Notes: Increasing leverage increases a firm's risk, therefore, deleveraging attempts to lower risk.
When a firm deleverages its balance sheet, that's a sign of slowing growth. See also: Leverage, Leveraged Buyout |
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Providing detailed descriptions for each alphabetically listed entry, A Dictionary Of Accounting And Auditing contains more than ten thousand such words and phrases as liquidation, deleverage, reasonable benefit limit. 5 percent in the prior year quarter driven primarily by dilution from acquisitions and deleverage on significantly lower sales volumes in the North American telecom business. 8 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2006 and have used that cash to acquire new businesses, invest in our growing outsourcing business, pay down our debt and deleverage our business. |
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