financial leverage
noun [U]Definition
› FINANCE the relationship between the amount of money that a company or organization owes and the value of the company or organization: Competitive businesses require more equity and less financial leverage than monopoly businesses.
(Definition of financial leverage noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary
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