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profitable
Adjective
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If something is profitable, it means it is money-making or it produces other good results.
Our product was a profitable one for years, and we retired as millionaires.
I made a profitable study of French. I spoke the language fluently within months.
leverage
Noun
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Leverage is the action caused by using a lever.
She was able to use the iron bar to get leverage on the heavy rock.
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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.
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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
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Leverage is to provide leverage.
He was able to leverage the company's money to buy more shares.
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Leverage is to improve something to make it better.
We need to leverage our good reputation to increase our sales.
of
Preposition
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Made using.
It is a house of cards.
IP
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noun
(= information science)
the sciences concerned with gathering, manipulating, storing, retrieving, and classifying recorded information