Example sentences for: leveraged

How can you use “leveraged” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • It also meant that future buyouts would be less heavily leveraged.

  • McIntyre, however, presents examples in which leveraged buying of equities generates large rates of return, and then proceeds to throw those numbers into his analysis without any discussion of the leverage and resultant risk involved.

  • Wall Street banks are just as heavily leveraged as LTCM was, exposing them to staggeringly enormous potential losses.

  • But the really interesting thing about Robertson's problems is the way they highlight the key role played in the recent travails of the world economy by hedge funds--or, to use the terminology preferred by the IMF, "highly leveraged investors."

  • This expression was a staple of business thinking in the '80s, and was epitomized by the experience of RJR Nabisco, which became the subject of a huge bidding war after its management tried to take the company private in a leveraged buyout.


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