noun A force compounded by means of a lever rotating around a pivot.
A crowbar uses leverage to pry nails out of wood.
noun Any influence which is compounded or used to gain an advantage.
Try using competitors’ prices for leverage in the negotiation.
noun 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.
noun The debt-to-equity ratio.
noun 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.
noun The distance of between an independent observation and other observations.
verb 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.