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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

  • 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

  • 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

  • "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

  • "This will impact a variety of states who happen to be levered to the federal government."

    Investors Wary of Downgrade Reaction Brendan Conway 2011

  • 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

  • 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

  • Looked at another way, Dexia was 100 times levered.

    European Bank Buffers Offer Little Comfort David Reilly 2011

  • "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

  • So I squeezed in, receipt in hand, and levered myself some space.

    Finding Fellini Lee Marshall 2011

  • 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.

    Wonkbook: Senate Dems announce their own spending cuts 2011

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