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leveraged buyout

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++ˌleveraged ˈbuyout noun [countable] technical  when someone borrows money to buy all or most of the stock of a company by promising to pay the bank back by selling the company’s assets if they cannot pay back the money they borrowed 融资收购,杠杆收购
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leveraged buyoutIn 1989, after several years of lagging profits, Lechmere changed hands as a result of a management-led leveraged buyout.During the 1980s, the phrases leveraged buyout and management buyout echoed all over Wall Street.
From Longman Business Dictionaryleveraged buyoutˌleveraged ˈbuyoutFINANCE when a person or organization buys a company using a loan borrowed against the company’s assets, some of which may then be sold to pay off the loanWith debt taken on in a $4.9 billion leveraged buyout, the company could not afford to pay all its bills. buyout
ˌleveraged ˈbuyout nounChineseSyllable
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leveraged buyout
ˌleveraged ˈbuyout noun [countable] technical
when someone borrows money to buy all or most of the stock of a company by promising to pay the bank back by selling the company’s assets if they cannot pay back the money they borrowed


leveraged buyoutBrE /ˌliːvərɪdʒd ˈbaɪaʊt/ 🔊NAmE /ˌlevərɪdʒd ˈbaɪaʊt/ 🔊 noun (business 商业, especially NAmE) the act of a small company buying a larger company using money that is borrowed based on the value of this larger company 杠杆式贷款收购,衡平收购(小公司以大公司的价值抵押贷款来收购这家大公司的方法)