Advantage vs. Leverage — What's the Difference?

A beneficial factor or combination of factors

The action of a lever.

Benefit or profit; gain

The mechanical advantage of a lever.

A relatively favorable position; superiority of means

Positional advantage; power to act effectively

The first point scored in tennis after deuce.

The use of credit or borrowed funds, often for a speculative investment, as in buying securities on margin.

The resulting score.

To provide (a company) with leverage.

(Sports) A situation in soccer in which the referee has signaled that a foul has been committed but delays making the call because the fouled team has a more favorable position in play. If the fouled team loses this favorable position, the referee then makes the call.

To supplement (money, for example) with leverage.

To afford profit or gain to; benefit.

To improve or enhance

(countable) Any condition, circumstance, opportunity or means, particularly favorable or chance to success, or to any desired end.

To use so as to obtain an advantage or profit

(obsolete) Superiority; mastery; — used with of to specify its nature or with over to specify the other party.

A force compounded by means of a lever rotating around a pivot; see torque.

Superiority of state, or that which gives it; benefit; gain; profit

(by extension) Any influence which is compounded or used to gain an advantage.

(tennis) The score where one player wins a point after deuce but needs the next to carry the game.

(finance) 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.

(soccer) The continuation of the game after a foul against the attacking team, because the attacking team are in an advantageous position.

(finance) The debt-to-equity ratio.

Interest of money; increase; overplus (as the thirteenth in the baker's dozen).

(business) The ability to earn very high returns when operating at high-capacity utilization of a facility.

(transitive) to provide (someone) with an advantage, to give an edge to

To use; to exploit; to manipulate in order to take full advantage (of something).

(reflexive) to do something for one's own benefit; to take advantage of

The action of a lever; mechanical advantage gained by the lever.

Any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success, or to any desired end; benefit; as, the enemy had the advantage of a more elevated position.

The mechanical advantage gained by being in a position to use a lever

Superiority; mastery; - with of or over.

Strategic advantage; power to act effectively;

Superiority of state, or that which gives it; benefit; gain; profit; as, the advantage of a good constitution.

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

Interest of money; increase; overplus (as the thirteenth in the baker's dozen).

Supplement with leverage;

The first point scored after deuce.

Provide with leverage;

To give an advantage to; to further; to promote; to benefit; to profit.

The quality of having a superior or more favorable position;

First point scored after deuce

Benefit resulting from some event or action;

Give an advantage to;