leverage
noun · verbB1Định nghĩa theo từ loại
Danh từ
noun- 1.
(uncountable, usually)A force compounded by means of a lever rotating around a pivot.
A crowbar uses leverage to pry nails out of wood.
Đồng nghĩa: mechanical advantage
- 2.
(broadly, uncountable, usually)(by extension) Any influence which is compounded or used to gain an advantage.
Try using competitors’ prices for leverage in the negotiation.
- 3.
(uncountable, usually)(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.
- 4.
(uncountable, usually)(finance) The debt-to-equity ratio.
Đồng nghĩa: gearing
- 5.
(uncountable, usually)(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.
Đồng nghĩa: operating leverage
- 6.
(uncountable, usually)(statistics, regression analytics) The distance of between an independent observation and other observations.
Động từ
verb- 1.
(US, slang, transitive)(transitive, chiefly US, slang, business) 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.
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From lever + -age. The verb likely comes from martial arts/judo usage, where one would "use an opponent's leverage (i.e. their weight, height, centre of balance, etc.)" against them in order to defeat them.