Clout vs. Leverage — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Clout and Leverage
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Clout
A piece of cloth, especially a baby's diaper.
Leverage
The action of a lever.
Clout
Influence; pull
“Doctors have banded together into large negotiating groups in efforts to increase their clout” (George Anders).
Leverage
The mechanical advantage of a lever.
Clout
Power; muscle.
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Leverage
Positional advantage; power to act effectively
"started his ... career with far more social leverage than his father had enjoyed" (Doris Kearns Goodwin).
Clout
A blow, especially with the fist.
Leverage
The use of credit or borrowed funds, often for a speculative investment, as in buying securities on margin.
Clout
(Baseball) A long powerful hit.
Leverage
To provide (a company) with leverage.
Clout
(Sports) An archery target.
Leverage
To supplement (money, for example) with leverage.
Clout
To hit, especially with the fist.
Leverage
To improve or enhance
"It makes more sense to be able to leverage what we [public radio stations] do in a more effective way to our listeners" (Delano Lewis).
Clout
Influence or effectiveness, especially political.
Leverage
To use so as to obtain an advantage or profit
Leveraged their personal contacts to find new investors.
Clout
A blow with the hand.
Leverage
A force compounded by means of a lever rotating around a pivot; see torque.
A crowbar uses leverage to pry nails out of wood.
Clout
A home run.
Leverage
(by extension) Any influence which is compounded or used to gain an advantage.
Try using competitors’ prices for leverage in the negotiation.
Clout
(archery) The center of the butt at which archers shoot; probably once a piece of white cloth or a nail head.
Leverage
(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.
Leverage is great until something goes wrong with your investments and you still have to pay your debts.
Clout
A swaddling cloth.
Leverage
(finance) The debt-to-equity ratio.
Clout
(archaic) A cloth; a piece of cloth or leather; a patch; a rag.
Leverage
(business) The ability to earn very high returns when operating at high-capacity utilization of a facility.
Their variable-cost-reducing investments have dramatically increased their leverage.
Clout
(archaic) An iron plate on an axletree or other wood to keep it from wearing; a washer.
Leverage
To use; to exploit; to manipulate in order to take full advantage (of something).
They plan to leverage the publicity into a good distribution agreement.
They plan to leverage off the publicity to get a good distribution agreement.
Clout
A clout nail.
Leverage
The action of a lever; mechanical advantage gained by the lever.
Clout
(obsolete) A piece; a fragment.
Leverage
The mechanical advantage gained by being in a position to use a lever
Clout
To hit, especially with the fist.
Leverage
Strategic advantage; power to act effectively;
Relatively small groups can sometimes exert immense political leverage
Clout
To cover with cloth, leather, or other material; to bandage, patch, or mend with a clout.
Leverage
Investing with borrowed money as a way to amplify potential gains (at the risk of greater losses)
Clout
To stud with nails, as a timber, or a boot sole.
Leverage
Supplement with leverage;
Leverage the money that is already available
Clout
To guard with an iron plate, as an axletree.
Leverage
Provide with leverage;
We need to leverage this company
Clout
To join or patch clumsily.
Clout
A cloth; a piece of cloth or leather; a patch; a rag.
His garments, nought but many ragged clouts,With thorns together pinned and patched was.
A clout upon that head where late the diadem stood.
Clout
A swadding cloth.
Clout
A piece; a fragment.
Clout
The center of the butt at which archers shoot; - probably once a piece of white cloth or a nail head.
A'must shoot nearer or he'll ne'er hit the clout.
Clout
An iron plate on an axletree or other wood to keep it from wearing; a washer.
Clout
A blow with the hand.
Clout
To cover with cloth, leather, or other material; to bandage; patch, or mend, with a clout.
And old shoes and clouted upon their feet.
Paul, yea, and Peter, too, had more skill in . . . clouting an old tent than to teach lawyers.
Clout
To join or patch clumsily.
If fond Bavius vent his clouted song.
Clout
To quard with an iron plate, as an axletree.
Clout
To give a blow to; to strike.
The . . . queen of Spain took off one of her chopines and clouted Olivarez about the noddle with it.
Clout
To stud with nails, as a timber, or a boot sole.
Clout
A target used in archery
Clout
Special advantage or influence;
The chairman's nephew has a lot of pull
Clout
A short nail with a flat head; used to attach sheet metal to wood
Clout
(boxing) a blow with the fist;
I gave him a clout on his nose
Clout
Strike hard, especially with the fist;
He clouted his attacker
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