Meaning

1 senses

  1. To reduce leverage, to pay back debts

    Lenders forced the company to delever.

Origin

From de- + lever.

From de- + lever.

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Forms

delevers, delevering, delevered, delevered
Base formdelever · to delever
3rd person singulardelevers
Present participledelevering
Past simpledelevered
Past participledelevered

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theydelever
he, she, itdelevers

Past simpleLesson

all personsdelevered

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave delevered
he, she, ithas delevered

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill delever

Word family

1 related words
Deriveddeleverage

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
deleteB1deleteriousdeletiondelideliberateB2deliberatelyB2
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