leverage

Formsleverages, leveraging, leveraged

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   bargaining powernoununcountable

   Power or influence you can use to get what you want from someone.

   Having another job offer gave her leverage when she asked for a raise.

   The workers had little leverage because the company could easily hire others.

   Similarclout, influence, sway, power, pull

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   lifting forcenoununcountable

   The extra lifting or pushing power you get from a lever turning on a fixed point.

   Put the stick under the rock and use leverage to lift it.

   A longer handle gives you more leverage.

   Similarpurchase

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3. 3
   make full useverbslangUStransitive

   To use something you have as fully as you can to get something more.

   The company wants to leverage its huge customer list to sell new products.

   She leveraged her online fame into a job on TV.

   Similarexploit, use, harness

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4. 4
   noununcountable

   Using borrowed money to invest more and try to earn more, which is usually very risky.

   The investor used leverage to buy three houses instead of one.

   Leverage can turn a small loss into a big one.

   Similargearing

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5. 5
   debt rationoununcountable

   A number that compares how much a company owes with how much its owners have put in.

   The bank was worried about the company's high leverage.

   Paying off its loans lowered the firm's leverage.

   Similargearing

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   full capacitynoununcountable

   The chance for a business to earn much more when its factory or other site runs close to full.

   Once the new plant is busy every day, its leverage will start to pay off.

   The airline has high leverage, so full planes bring in huge profits.

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7. 7
   statisticsnoununcountable

   In statistics, how far one data point's input values are from those of the other points.

   One point far to the right of the others had very high leverage.

   The analyst checked each point's leverage before trusting the fitted line.

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