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Meaning leverage meaning

What does leverage mean?
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leverage Noun

— Leverage is the action caused by using a lever. She was able to use the iron bar to get leverage on the heavy rock. — Leverage is the power to be able to use something to get something done. She was able to use her position on the council as leverage to get a better price from the company. — Leverage is the act of using the value of investment shares to borrow money to buy more shares. Increasing the amount of leverage was seen to be too risky.

leverage Verb

— Leverage is to provide leverage. He was able to leverage the company's money to buy more shares. — Leverage is to improve something to make it better. We need to leverage our good reputation to increase our sales.

leverage

— noun investing with borrowed money as a way to amplify potential gains (at the risk of greater losses) — noun strategic advantage; power to act effectively relatively small groups can sometimes exert immense political leverage — noun the mechanical advantage gained by being in a position to use a lever — verb provide with leverage We need to leverage this company — verb supplement with leverage leverage the money that is already available

Synonyms leverage synonyms

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Conjugation leverage conjugation

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leverage · verb

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The City was never in awe of the Crown, and the wealthier the City became, the more leverage it had.
Break out a spare shaft. - We must use leverage.
And then it's all in the leverage.
You just lost your leverage.
I will have to use more leverage.
You'll be my leverage.
They got no leverage under the truck.
We have leverage now.
You don't have any leverage.
But at least we've got the leverage to do it.
And that's why they want the girl, to use as leverage with daddy.
I'm using my support for Peter Thorne as leverage on the Treasury.
We need to use some leverage.
When Tuttle cabled us about the stuff you were bringing, it gave us leverage.
We must use leverage.
Give me some leverage.
You have good leverage in this affair, Dagon.
You start by jerking the weights up and getting under them where you've got leverage.
If we kill somebody, we don't have any leverage!
If I'd done that, I'd have some leverage with Willoughby.
I better stand up and get a little leverage on this thing.
I didn't have any leverage in that department.
That kind of leverage, you're talking potential disaster.
Which is my leverage.
That way, we'd have some leverage.
At least we got the leverage to do it.
I've been noticing a trend in the market, in the stock market. and I see some leverage.
Get some leverage and pull.
I don't know why they need these little bits of psychological leverage over us.
Your doctor has given me the leverage I need.
I don't care about the Eye's leverage, you think they'll follow you?
Leverage!
We need leverage! Get that truck up!
Well, I'm surprised Hoover didn't use his daughter as leverage.
They give you so much leverage in a case like this.

News and current affairs

The leverage of any public entity must be monitored, supervised, and restricted.
The idea is that deferring the warrant will give the Security Council leverage over Sudan.
It seems unlikely that not a single central bank analyst was the least bit worried about the massive growth in credit and leverage at the time.
With little leverage, Iran's leaders would then have two options.
By hinging China's market access on progress in resolving political, territorial, and water disputes, India can prevent China from fortifying its leverage.
By beginning to normalize relations with South Korea, Kim Jong Il gains leverage in his dealings not only with South Korea, but also in negotiations with the US, Japan, China, and Russia.
Iran has the most leverage inside Iraq, and Syria has become a vital crossing point for weapons and insurgents into the Iraqi battlefield.
By contrast, economic aid can foster democratic development; it can also be used as leverage against recalcitrant governments.
But anyone who is even vaguely familiar with the US approach to multilateral lending knows that no other country has been as adept at exploiting its power and leverage for strategic gain.
All told, these various initiatives are likely to leverage hundreds of billions of dollars in investment over the coming decade, speeding growth in the counterpart countries while deepening their production, trade, and financial linkages with China.
But the greatest leverage will undoubtedly come from policies that foster ongoing and rapid migration from the countryside to the cities.
But they have not eschewed the use of variable capital and reserve requirements, loan-to-deposit ratios, and thresholds for minimum deposits and maximum leverage as controls on property lending.
This debt almost surely needs to be restructured, but, having allowed the banks to leverage themselves beyond any level of prudence and load up on toxic derivatives, the ECB is now warning against any sort of restructuring or write-down.
If one assumes greater leverage for private-sector investment, the number would be higher.
The presidents of Uganda and Tanzania, and the international community in general, also exerted leverage.
A Cold War-style confrontation and containment policy from the West will be met with strong resistance from the Chinese, whose global leverage, particularly in finance, cannot be ignored.
If the main problem had been confined to excess leverage and risk-taking within the financial sector, the economic shock would have been large, but the recovery quicker.
This gave rise to the first causes of the crisis: the originate-and-distribute model of securitization and the extensive use of leverage.
Equally important, but less evident, is the leverage that this position provides with respect to Iran.
Others, including me, argued that, given the excesses of private-sector leverage (in households, financial institutions, and corporate firms), this would be a U-shaped recession - long and deep.
Countries with persistent structural current-account deficits will incur additional external-financing costs, and eventually will reach the limits of leverage.
We must therefore seek to enhance our cooperation and leverage our regional, multilateral, and bilateral dialogues and relationships to ensure the integrity and efficacy of these efforts.
Some propose bringing in the European Central Bank to leverage the EFSF's funds.
The Fund has little leverage over the big countries that are at the heart of the problem.
But American nonproliferation experts do not anticipate progress on South Korea's efforts to win support for its preferred policies until the US gains more leverage.
Belarus's reliance on cheap energy supplies from Russia could also be used as leverage.
In the meantime, the Tories risk losing their way on a crucial issue - reform of the relationship between the eurozone and non-euro EU members - if they try to use it as leverage to renegotiate the various European treaties.
Although China may not like it, the international trading system may provide more leverage than any other post-Kyoto mechanism over developing countries' environmental policies.

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