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/lˈɛvərɪdʒ/ /lˈɛvrədʒ/ /lˈivərɪdʒ/ Listen

Leverage

noun

The mechanical advantage gained by being in a position to use a lever. Synonym: purchase.

Strategic advantage; power to act effectively.

Investing with borrowed money as a way to amplify potential gains (at the risk of greater losses). Synonym: leveraging.

verb

Supplement with leverage.

Provide with leverage.

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"Leverage" Quotes from Famous Books

... was fully aware of the leverage these actions gave his committee, although he and his associates now had few illusions about the speedy end to the contest. "I know from the best authority within P&A," Kenworthy warned the committee, ...

— Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965 • Morris J. MacGregor Jr.

... shop-girls did not read this fine flower of American democracy, nobody would, except those who wait eagerly and anxiously for their names to appear.) She perceived—not knowing that the advertising leverage of the Berthelin Loan Agency had forced those insecure portals of print for the entry of Mrs. Berthelin and her progeny—that she was in the presence of the Great. Capacity for awe was not in Mayme's independent ...

— From a Bench in Our Square • Samuel Hopkins Adams

... extensive coastlines on Persian Gulf and Red Sea provide great leverage on shipping (especially crude oil) through Persian ...

— The 2004 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency

... and placed it clear of the stern, athwart the fore-and-aft line of the ship. We had quite a job with it (weight, four and a half tons), using treble- and double- sheaved-blocks purchase, but with the endless-chain tackle from the engine-room, and plenty of 'beef' and leverage, we dragged it clear. All the pintles are gone at the fore part of the rudder; it is a clean break and bears witness to the terrific force exerted on the ship during the nip. I am glad to see the rudder upon the ice and clear of the propeller. The blade itself (which is solid ...

— South! • Sir Ernest Shackleton

... with connoisseurs. But I was struck with the figure of the amiable and brilliant inventor, who was depressed, and received the premature congratulations of his friends somewhat ruefully. We could see the curious 'swinging saloon' fitted into the vessel, with the ingenious hydraulic leverage by which it could be kept nicely balanced. But it was to be noted that the saloon was braced firmly to the sides of its containing vessel; in fact, it was given out that, owing to some defect in its mechanism, ...

— A Day's Tour • Percy Fitzgerald

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