leveraged buyout

noun

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: a business arrangement in which someone buys a company by borrowing money based on the value of the company that is being bought

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leveraged buyout

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leveraged buy·out

-ˈbī-ˌau̇t

: the acquisition of a company usually by members of its own management using debt to finance the purchase of equity with debt to be paid by future profits or sale of company assets

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