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Từ điển LongMan Dictionary
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. le‧ver‧age1 /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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