About The Word Leverage

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Leverage

Leverage Meaning & Definition
Leverage Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Leverage?

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

Synonyms | Synonyms for Leverage: leveraging | purchase

Related Terms | Find terms related to Leverage: aeromechanics | animal mechanics | ascendancy | authority | biomechanics | celestial mechanics | charisma | charm | clout | consequence | control | credit | dominance | domination | effect | electromechanics | eminence | enchantment | esteem | favor | fluid mechanics | force | good feeling | hold | hydromechanics | importance | incidental power | influence | influentiality | insinuation | leadership | magnetism | mastery | mechanical arts | mechanics | moment | personality | persuasion | potency | power | predominance | preponderance | pressure | prestige | purchase | quantum mechanics | rational mechanics | reign | repute | rule | say | servomechanics | statistical mechanics | suasion | subtle influence | suggestion | supremacy | sway | upper hand | wave mechanics | weight | whip hand | zoomechanics

See Also | advantage | bargaining chip | furnish | investing | investment | mechanical phenomenon | provide | render | supplement | supply | vantage

Leverage In Webster's Dictionary

\Lev"er*age\ (l[e^]v"[~e]r*[asl]j or l[=e]"v[~e]r*[asl]j), n. The action of a lever; mechanical advantage gained by the lever. {Leverage of a couple} (Mech.), the perpendicular distance between the lines of action of two forces which act in parallel and opposite directions. {Leverage of a force}, the perpendicular distance from the line in which a force acts upon a body to a point about which the body may be supposed to turn.

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