leverage
/ˈlɛv.(ə.)ɹɪd͡ʒ/ noun C1- A force compounded by means of a lever rotating around a pivot. · A crowbar uses leverage to pry nails out of wood.
- Any influence which is compounded or used to gain an advantage. · Try using competitors’ prices for leverage in the negotiation.
- The use of borrowed funds with a contractually determined return to increase the ability 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.
- The debt-to-equity ratio.
- 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.
- The distance of between an independent observation and other observations.
Plural leverages
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This diplomatic leverage proved paramount when the explorers reached the ancestral lands of the Shoshone, where they desperately required horses to traverse the daunting Bitterroot Mountains.
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