leveraged

leveraged

1. simple past and past participle of leverage

leveraged (comparative more leveraged, superlative most leveraged)

1. (finance) Operating on leverage (borrowed funds).
   • 2020 June 10, Frank Partnoy, “The Looming Bank Collapse”, in The Atlantic‎^[1], →ISSN, archived from the original on 10 June 2020:

     Since 2008, banks have kept more capital on hand to protect against a downturn, and their balance sheets are less leveraged now than they were in 2007.

   • 2025 December 5, “Why the Battle for Warner Bros. Discovery May Not Be Over Yet”, in The New York Times‎^[2], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 5 December 2025:

     Leveraged E.T.F.s use tools like swaps, futures and other derivatives to amplify bets on an asset. But the aggressive use of leverage by the funds named in the letter has raised red flags, Niko Gallogly writes.

   • 2025 December 6, George Steer, Jill R Shah, Nikou Asgari, “Crypto's rocky year”, in FT Weekend, Big Rea, page 6:

     So-called perps allow traders to make highly leveraged bets, up to 100-to-1 on some crypto exchanges, to boost their returns on market moves.

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