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Leverageable vs. Leverage — What's the Difference?

Leverageable vs. Leverage — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Leverageable and Leverage

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Leverageable

Capable of being leveraged.

Leverage

The action of a lever.

Leverage

The mechanical advantage of a lever.

Leverage

Positional advantage; power to act effectively
"started his ... career with far more social leverage than his father had enjoyed" (Doris Kearns Goodwin).

Leverage

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

To provide (a company) with leverage.

Leverage

To supplement (money, for example) with leverage.

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).

Leverage

To use so as to obtain an advantage or profit
Leveraged their personal contacts to find new investors.

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.

Leverage

(by extension) Any influence which is compounded or used to gain an advantage.
Try using competitors’ prices for leverage in the negotiation.

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.

Leverage

(finance) The debt-to-equity ratio.

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.

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.

Leverage

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

Leverage

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

Leverage

Strategic advantage; power to act effectively;
Relatively small groups can sometimes exert immense political leverage

Leverage

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

Leverage

Supplement with leverage;
Leverage the money that is already available

Leverage

Provide with leverage;
We need to leverage this company

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