LEVERAGING

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Investing with borrowed money as a way to amplify potential gains (at the risk of greater losses)

Synonyms:

leverage; leveraging

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("leveraging" is a kind of...):

investing; investment (the act of investing; laying out money or capital in an enterprise with the expectation of profit)

-ing form of the verb leverage