leveraged
Exploited for gain
Leveraged describes using borrowed money or debt to amplify potential returns on an investment.
A leveraged buyout uses significant debt to acquire a company.
Leveraged funds borrow to increase their market exposure.
More broadly, leveraged means making use of something to maximum advantage: She leveraged her connections to land the job.
The financial sense carries connotations of both opportunity and risk—leverage magnifies gains but also losses.
Increased in strength
- maximizedIncreased to greatest extent
- boostedRaised or amplified
- enhancedIncreased in quality
- multipliedIncreased by repeated addition
magnified · strengthened · intensified · extended · expanded · scaled · optimized · capitalized
Purchase of controlling interest
- debtMoney owed another
- equityImpartial treatment or ownership value
- marginEdge of a page
- capitalWealth used for investment
borrowing · collateral · financing · acquisition · recapitalization · loan · credit · securities
Lever's balance point
- pivotPoint of rotation
- forceStrength or compulsion
- torqueRotational force measurement
- advantageFavorable position or circumstance
effort · load · pry · lifting · crowbar · jack · pulley · counterweight
Negotiating mutually acceptable terms
- negotiationDiscussion seeking mutual accord
- advantageFavorable position or circumstance
- powerEnergy transfer rate
- positionLocation or stance
Beyond sustainable capacity
- exposureState of being unprotected
- defaultPreset standard option
- volatilityRapid, unpredictable changeability
- lossesThings subtracted from standing
bankruptcy · foreclosure · downturn · collapse · insolvency · liquidation · underwater
amplified
Increased in strength
multiplied · magnified · strengthened · intensified · extended · expanded · scaled · optimized · capitalized · exploited
buyout
Purchase of controlling interest
capital · borrowing · collateral · financing · acquisition · recapitalization · loan · credit · securities · portfolio
fulcrum
Lever's balance point
advantage · effort · load · pry · lifting · crowbar · jack · pulley · counterweight
bargaining
Negotiating mutually acceptable terms
- negotiationDiscussion seeking mutual accord
- advantageFavorable position or circumstance
- powerEnergy transfer rate
position · clout · pressure · strongarm · coercion · sway · muscle
overextended
Beyond sustainable capacity
- exposureState of being unprotected
- defaultPreset standard option
- volatilityRapid, unpredictable changeability
losses · bankruptcy · foreclosure · downturn · collapse · insolvency · liquidation · underwater
- financesmoney, affluence, cash, bankrupt, income
- business adjectivescommercial, corporate, economic, financial, fiscal
- tradingbid, buy, ask, sell, trading
- boundbound, tied, restrained, confined, restricted
- harnessed energysolar power, wind power, water power, hydroelectric, geothermal
- supportedsupported, backed, aided, helped out, assisted
leveragedunleveraged
Without borrowed funds
debt-free · deleveraged · self-funded · conservative · low-risk
leveragedunaided
Without external support
direct · unamplified · unassisted · brute-force · manual
leveragedunutilized
Not put to work
unexploited · untapped · idle · wasted · dormant
- high leverage
- leveraged buyoutDebt-funded corporate acquisition
- financial leverageDebt-to-equity ratio strategy
- leveraged buy-outDebt-financed corporate acquisition
- economic leverageMonetary power over others
- diplomatic leverageAdvantage in statecraft negotiations
leverage, leverages, leveraging, overleveraged, deleveraging, unleveraged, leveraged buyout