leverage

1. A force compounded by means of a lever rotating around a pivot. (uncountable) · A crowbar uses leverage to pry nails out of wood.
2. Any influence which is compounded or used to gain an advantage. (uncountable) · Try using competitors’ prices for leverage in the negotiation.
3. 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. (uncountable) · Leverage is great until something goes wrong with your investments and you still have to pay your debts.
4. The debt-to-equity ratio. (uncountable)
5. The ability to earn very high returns when operating at high-capacity utilization of a facility. (uncountable) · Their variable-cost-reducing investments have dramatically increased their leverage.
6. The distance of between an independent observation and other observations. (uncountable)

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