Synonym: leveraging, purchase. Similar words: average, coverage, on average, over and over again, lever, clever, cleverly, cleverness. Meaning: ['levərɪdʒ /'lɪːv-] n. 1. the mechanical advantage gained by being in a position to use a lever 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). v. 1. supplement with leverage 2. provide with leverage.
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31) Turkey has promised not to use its control of the rivers for political leverage.
32) As a general rule, the archbishop had sufficient political leverage to ensure success for his own monks in these disputes.
33) He was a national hero and now he had the leverage to change golf.
34) Still, industry sources acknowledge that stars have greater leverage in such negotiations as the search for prime-time hits becomes increasingly desperate.
35) The ability of UDAGs to leverage private dollars is not very meaningful if those dollars would have been invested anyway.
36) Pavlov had warned on Aug. 13 of a potential power vacuum,[Sentencedict] unless the centre retained sufficient economic leverage.
37) Everything is in flux with no constant points from which political leverage can be gained.
38) Abused women can gain new confidence when they realize they have political leverage against their abusive spouses.
39) This gave them potential political leverage were their sectional interests to be threatened.
40) The attraction of options and futures, our specialty item, was that they offered both liquidity and fantastic leverage.
41) Development programs often use public funds to leverage private investment.
42) The logic with margin is that you can leverage your assets to buy additional securities and increase your profits if prices rise.
43) Operating leverage measures the percentage increase in profits resulting from a given percentage increase in sales.
44) Soderberg put it succinctly and with passion: Right now we have no leverage at all on Hunts Point.
45) Kerrey and the commission, however[sentencedict.com], had little political leverage and were easily ignored by both Democrats and Republicans.
46) The consequent leverage is the most distinctive feature of our financial era.
47) This will usually mean encouraging greater leverage to allow the work to be performed profitably.
48) This, together with closer economic ties with the West, added to the Empire's leverage in international affairs.
49) Yet the report looks to the institutional investors to exercise the leverage necessary to persuade companies to comply with the code.
50) In its 1992 programme for liberalizing financial services the Community is also exercising leverage by imposing reciprocity conditions.
51) Without amplification, cylinders could only be reproduced more loudly by altering the leverage between the stylus and the reproducing diaphragm.
52) The challenge of how to use that powerful leverage for the benefit of humankind is simply an intelligence test.
53) The agreement promises to leverage Kalpana's strengths in Ethernet switching technology to boost Sparcserver network performance and availability.
54) With growing demand, Mike could exercise exchange leverage over an expanding number of people ready to change.
55) While obtains the financial leverage benefit.
56) Chinese households' leverage ratio is still quite low.
57) But growth was driven by financial leverage and overinvestment.
58) SAP BW data sources can still leverage remote processing.
59) Debt financing has leverage effect and tax benefit.
60) But nobody pretends that foreign governments have much leverage.
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