Leverage
['liːv(ə)rɪdʒ;'lev(ə)rɪdʒ] or ['lɛvərɪdʒ]
Definition
(noun.) investing with borrowed money as a way to amplify potential gains (at the risk of greater losses).
(noun.) strategic advantage; power to act effectively; 'relatively small groups can sometimes exert immense political leverage'.
(noun.) the mechanical advantage gained by being in a position to use a lever.
(verb.) provide with leverage; 'We need to leverage this company'.
(verb.) supplement with leverage; 'leverage the money that is already available'.
Typist: Moira--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The action of a lever; mechanical advantage gained by the lever.
Typist: Malcolm
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Purchase (obtained by the lever).
Editor: Nolan
Examples
- That hinterland affects daily life, and the church which cannot get a leverage on it by any other method than entering into immediate political controversy is simply a church that is dead. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The wind strikes the front, but rarely touches the back of the plane, and so gains a great leverage that adds materially to its power to overturn the machine. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- To get ready for something, one knows not what nor why, is to throw away the leverage that exists, and to seek for motive power in a vague chance. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
Edited by Antony