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Leverage   /lˈɛvərɪdʒ/  /lˈɛvrədʒ/  /lˈivərɪdʒ/   Listen
Leverage

noun
1.
The mechanical advantage gained by being in a position to use a lever.  Synonym: purchase.
2.
Strategic advantage; power to act effectively.
3.
Investing with borrowed money as a way to amplify potential gains (at the risk of greater losses).  Synonym: leveraging.
verb
1.
Supplement with leverage.
2.
Provide with leverage.





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"Leverage" Quotes from Famous Books



... looked rather unpromising. Judson Parker and his sister were the only Parkers in Avonlea, so that no leverage could be exerted by family connections. Martha Parker was a lady of all too certain age who disapproved of young people in general and the Improvers in particular. Judson was a jovial, smooth-spoken man, so uniformly goodnatured and bland that it was surprising how few friends he had. ...
— Anne Of Avonlea • Lucy Maud Montgomery
... ancient method of leverage," he said, turning round to the workmen with an excitement he could barely conceal; "There is something precious underneath in the ground,—something which can probably be raised by means of this handle and screw. Dig round it about a yard away from the centre,—loosen the ...
— God's Good Man • Marie Corelli
... ever written on the subject; and is particularly valuable nowadays when there is a certain tendency to undervalue Smollett in order to exalt Fielding, who certainly needs no such illegitimate and uncritical leverage. I do not think that he is, on the whole, unjust to Campbell; though his Gallican, or rather Napoleonic mania made him commit the literary crime of slighting "The Battle of the Baltic." But in all his criticism of ...
— Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 • George Saintsbury
... leverage and raised her perpendicularly in the air. At 2.30 P.M. we capsized. We climbed up the nose and 'over the top' to the under-side of the pontoons. Our emergency ration had been in the observer's seat at the back, but we had been so busy trying to repair the motor and save ourselves from turning ...
— Our Navy in the War • Lawrence Perry
... have I seen such a Problem as this of hoisting to their feet the heavy-bottomed Dutch. The cunningest leverage, every sort of Diplomatic block-and-tackle, Carteret and Stair themselves running over to help in critical seasons, is applied; to almost no purpose. Pull long, pull strong, pull all together,—see, the heavy Dutch ...
— History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. XIII. (of XXI.) • Thomas Carlyle


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