leveraged buyout

1. 1.

   a buyout using borrowed money; the target company's assets are usually security for the loan

   “a leveraged buyout by upper management can be used to combat hostile takeover bids”

   Broaderbuyout

   Narrowerbust-up takeover

Questions about leveraged buyout

What does leveraged buyout mean?

leveraged buyout means "a buyout using borrowed money; the target company's assets are usually security for the loan".

Is leveraged buyout a common word?

leveraged buyout is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.