leverage
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leverage (usually uncountable; plural leverages)
- A force compounded by means of a lever rotating around a pivot; see torque.
- A crowbar uses leverage to pry nails out of wood.
- By extension, any influence which is compounded or used to gain an advantage.
- Try using competitors’ prices for leverage in the negotiation.
- (finance) The use of borrowed funds with a contractually determined return to increase the ability of a business to invest and earn an expected higher return, but usually at high risk.
- Leverage is great until something goes wrong with your investments and you still have to pay your debts.
- 1933 Jun 4, “Trusts Heartened by Security Rally”, New York Times:
- In such cases where there is a multiple capital structure the factor known as leverage comes into play.
- (business) The ability to earn very high returns when operating at high capacity utilization of a facility.
- Their variable-cost-reducing investments have dramatically increased their leverage.
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- (force compounded by a lever): mechanical advantage
- (use of borrowed fund): financial leverage
- (ability to earn high returns from high capacity utilization): operating leverage
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force compounded by means of a lever rotating around a pivot
any influence which is compounded or used to gain an advantage
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to leverage (third-person singular simple present leverages, present participle leveraging, simple past and past participle leveraged)
- (transitive, intransitive, chiefly US, mostly management, business) To use; to exploit; to take full advantage (of something).
- They plan to leverage the publicity into a good distribution agreement.
- They plan to leverage off the publicity to get a good distribution agreement.
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take full advantage of an existing thing
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