leverage
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈlɛv(ə)ɹɪdʒ/, /ˈliːv(ə)ɹɪdʒ/
leverage (uncountable)
- 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.
- (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.
- (force compounded by a lever) mechanical advantage
- (use of borrowed fund) financial leverage
- (ability to earn high returns from high capacity utilization) operating leverage
- German: Hebelwirkung, Hebel, Hebelkraft
- Italian: potenza, leveraggio, leva
- Portuguese: alavancagem
- Russian: рыча́г
- Spanish: palanca, palanqueo, apalancamiento
- German: Einfluss
- Italian: influenza
- Russian: рыча́г
- Spanish: influencia, palanca, enchufe
- French: effet de levier
- German: Fremdfinanzierungsgrad, Fremdkapitalaufnahme, Verschuldungsgrad, Hebelwirkung
- Portuguese: alavancagem
- Spanish: apalancamiento
- German: Hebelwirkung, Hebel
leverage (leverages, present participle leveraging; past and past participle leveraged)
- (transitive, chiefly, US, slang, business) To use; to exploit; to manipulate in order 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.
- French: profiter (de quelque chose), exploiter, tirer parti (de quelque chose)
- German: aushebeln, hebeln, wirksam einsetzen, voll zunutze machen
- Italian: beneficiare, approfittare, manipolare
- Portuguese: aproveitar
- Russian: максимально использовать
- Spanish: beneficiar, aprovechar, apalancar
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