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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