Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• GEARING
  
  Buy a house for £100,000 with a deposit of £10,000 and the rest as a mortgage. Six months later, sell it for £150,000 and you've made 400% profit on your original investment: that's gearing. Of course, it can work the other way too!
  
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