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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
lever . - adjective Equipped with a lever or levers.
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Examples
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Trading in ProShares UltraShort Silver, an ETF that offers a levered bet on falling silver prices, totaled more than nearly eight times its average daily volume over the last three months.
Silver Rush Spreads to Stock Market Tom Lauricella 2011
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Potential investors understood they couldn't break that heavily levered structure if they wanted to buy the bonds, they said.
Appetite for Corzine Bonds Gregory Zuckerman 2011
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"That'll have a depressing impact on the U.S. economy and on companies highly levered to U.S. domestic growth," Mr. Webman says.
What a Downgrade Means for You Jonathan Cheng 2011
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"This will impact a variety of states who happen to be levered to the federal government."
Investors Wary of Downgrade Reaction Brendan Conway 2011
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During the credit crisis, funding became a problem, especially for highly levered firms that had to refinance at excessively high rates.
Crisis Lessons Learned, Commercial-Paper Market Skates Through Tumult Anusha Shrivastava 2011
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When they closed my door, with clang and clash of levered boltage, and left me in the utter dark, it was eleven o'clock in the morning.
Chapter 7 2010
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Looked at another way, Dexia was 100 times levered.
European Bank Buffers Offer Little Comfort David Reilly 2011
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"These were highly levered transactions that probably assumed high consumer spending indefinitely, which given the state of the economy just isn't panning out."
Leveraged Buyouts Hit Bondholders Michael Aneiro 2011
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So I squeezed in, receipt in hand, and levered myself some space.
Finding Fellini Lee Marshall 2011
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Ever since, it has levered all manner of extraneous spending increases, tax cuts, and special interest amendments without having the slightest downward impact on federal spending.
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