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Definition of Leverage

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

2. Verb. Supplement with leverage. "Leverage the money that is already available"

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

4. Verb. Provide with leverage. "We need to leverage this company"

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

Definition of Leverage

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

Definition of Leverage

1. Noun. A force compounded by means of a lever rotating around a pivot; see torque. ¹

2. Noun. By extension, any influence which is compounded or used to gain an advantage. ¹

3. Noun. (finance) The use of borrowed funds with a contractually determined return to increase the ability of a business to invest and earn an expected higher return, but usually at high risk. ¹

4. Noun. (business) The ability to earn very high returns when operating at high capacity utilization of a facility. ¹

5. Noun. ¹

6. Verb. (transitive chiefly US chiefly management business) To use; to exploit; to take full advantage (of something). ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Leverage

1. to provide with a type of economic advantage [v -AGED, -AGING, -AGES]

Medical Definition of Leverage

1. The action of a lever; mechanical advantage gained by the lever. Leverage of a couple, the perpendicular distance between the lines of action of two forces which act in parallel and opposite directions. Leverage of a force, the perpendicular distance from the line in which a force acts upon a body to a point about which the body may be supposed to turn. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Leverage

levelless levelling levelling up levelly levelness levelnesses levels levels up lever lever action

lever arm lever hang lever lock lever scale lever tumbler leverage (current term) leverageable leveraged leveraged buy-out leveraged buyout

leverages leveraging levered levered firm levered firms leveret leverets levering leverless leverman

Literary usage of Leverage

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Practical Treatise on Hydraulic and Water-supply Engineering: Relating to by John Thomas Fanning (1877)
"The leverage stability of the wall is therefore satisfactory to resist ... The ratio of leverage resistance may be obtained from the sketch by scale, ..."

2. A Treatise on the Law of Patents for Useful Inventions: As Enacted and by George Ticknor Curtis (1867)
"This is what he claims, a self-adjusting leverage acting in that way. Then he points out the particular mode in which that is effected. ..."

3. A Manual of Applied Mechanics by William John Macquorn Rankine (1898)
"Force of n Couple—Arm or leverage.—The force of a couple is the common magnitude of the two equal forces; the arm or leverage of a couple is the ..."

4. A Treatise on the Law of Patents for Useful Inventions in the United States by George Ticknor Curtis, Thomas Webster (1854)
"This is what he claims, a self-adjusting leverage acting in that way. Then he points out the particular mode in which that is effected. ..."

5. Insurance: Principles and Practices by Robert Riegel, Harry James Loman (1921)
"Emergency brake pedal protection 90 Brake Linkage leverage (a) Service brake ... leverage 50-75% of standard 45 20. leverage less than 50% of standard none ..."

6. Insurance, Principles and Practices by Robert Riegel, Henry James Loman (1922)
"Emergency brake pedal protection 90 Brake Linkage leverage (a) Service brake ... leverage 50-75% of standard 45 20. leverage less than 50% of standard none ..."

7. Library of Useful Knowledge (1829)
"In this position the weight added to A, instead of acting against В with an equal leverage CO, would act with the diminished leverage EO against В resisting ..."

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