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leverage


I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
leveraged buyout
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
ADJECTIVE
political
This gave them potential political leverage were their sectional interests to be threatened.
And for better or worse, the new interactivity brings enormous political leverage to ordinary citizens at relatively little cost.
As a general rule, the archbishop had sufficient political leverage to ensure success for his own monks in these disputes.
Meanwhile, organized labor and the thousands of new patronage jobs in the federal bureaucracy gave the president powerful political leverage.
Everything is in flux with no constant points from which political leverage can be gained.
Abused women can gain new confidence when they realize they have political leverage against their abusive spouses.
Kerrey and the commission, however, had little political leverage and were easily ignored by both Democrats and Republicans.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Turkey has promised not to use its control of the rivers for political leverage.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
Kerrey and the commission, however, had little political leverage and were easily ignored by both Democrats and Republicans.
Nader is relishing the leverage and the limelight.
The attraction of options and futures, our specialty item, was that they offered both liquidity and fantastic leverage.
The consequent leverage is the most distinctive feature of our financial era.
The national brewers' leverage has been intensified as a result of the rise of lager.
Yet the report looks to the institutional investors to exercise the leverage necessary to persuade companies to comply with the code.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Development programs often use public funds to leverage private investment.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
At the same time, their capacity to leverage private capital in support of these developments has varied considerably.
Emap Partenaires was established to develop ancillary revenues leveraging off our market leading positions.
He then began a forty-year process of leveraging his holdings to acquire additional media resources in other parts of the world.
The agreement promises to leverage Kalpana's strengths in Ethernet switching technology to boost Sparcserver network performance and availability.
These and other economic development proposals have emphasized targeting and leveraging to get maximum use of the federal dollars.

leverage

I. leverage1 /ˈliːvərɪdʒ $ ˈle-, ˈliː-/ noun [UNCOUNTABLE]
1. influence that you can use to make people do what you want:
  ▪ diplomatic leverage by the US

2. the action, power, or use of a lever

II. leverage2 verb [TRANSITIVE] American English technical
1. to make money available to someone in order to invest or to buy something such as a company:
  ▪ the use of public funds to leverage private investment

2. to spread or use resources (=money, skills, buildings etc that an organization has available), ideas etc again in several different ways or in different parts of a company, system etc
leverage something across something
  ▪ Reusable software is leveraged across many applications.

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