leverage
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
finance
mathematics
sciences
statistics
Etymology: From lever + -age. The verb likely comes from martial arts/judo usage, where one would "use an opponent's leverage (i.e. their weight, height, centre of balance, etc.)" against them in order to defeat them.
Base: lever
Affixes: -age
Inflected forms:
form: leverages
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: leverages
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: leveraging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: leveraged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: leveraged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A force compounded by means of a lever rotating around a pivot.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: A crowbar uses leverage to pry nails out of wood.
In order to proportion the braking force to the weight carried by a wheel - a matter of special importance in the braking of wagons - variable leverage systems are now being introduced in which the end of one axle spring is linked to a control spring in the change-over valve, so automatically varying the leverage exerted by the brake-rod according to whether the wagon is full or empty.
gloss: Any influence which is compounded or used to gain an advantage.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
uncountable
usually
examples: Try using competitors’ prices for leverage in the negotiation.
The former Forest man, who passed a late fitness test, appeared to use Guy Moussi for leverage before nodding in David Fox's free-kick at the far post - his 22nd goal of the season.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Leverage is great until something goes wrong with your investments and you still have to pay your debts.
Online margin trading is usually based on leverage, where the brokerage effectively lets you borrow more money than you have deposited as collateral.
Both exchanges offer crypto derivatives, which are bets on future fluctuations in cryptocurrency prices. They also offer extreme leverage — up to 125 times on Binance. That means a $1,000 down payment can be turned into a $125,000 gamble.
S.E.C. rules cap E.T.F.s from offering more than two times leverage. The nine fund managers who received a letter from the S.E.C. sought to introduce products that offered three and, in some cases, five times leverage.
gloss: The debt-to-equity ratio.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: In such cases where there is a multiple capital structure the factor known as leverage comes into play.
gloss: The ability to earn very high returns when operating at high-capacity utilization of a facility.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Their variable-cost-reducing investments have dramatically increased their leverage.
gloss: The distance of between an independent observation and other observations.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: To use; to exploit; to manipulate in order to take full advantage (of something).
pos: verb
tags: US
slang
transitive
examples: They plan to leverage the publicity into a good distribution agreement.
They plan to leverage off the publicity to get a good distribution agreement.
EAP research has developed advanced methods for producing corpus-informed vocabulary resources, but these have yet to be fully leveraged to promote disciplinary literacy within the secondary school context.
Catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide (AIR) today announced that Sompo International, a global specialty provider of property and casualty insurance and reinsurance, is leveraging AIR's casualty analytics platform, Arium, to better understand and quantify its liability and loss potential across multiple commercial liability lines of business.
Thomas H. Lee, a private equity financier who pioneered the use of leveraged buyouts that helped to reshape corporate America, has died, according to a notice from his former firm that still bears his name.
Russian forces continue to prioritize their offensive push towards Pokrovsk, and the operational significance of seizing the city will likely in part depend on the Russian military's ability to leverage the city in wider operational maneuver in Donetsk Oblast.
Derived words: overleverage
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