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Power to influence people or things
Answer for the clue "Power to influence people or things ", 8 letters:
leverage
Alternative clues for the word leverage
- Bargaining chip
- Speculate, as with borrowed funds
- Purchase made by the 4 dn, always with silver inside
- Strategic advantage gained by tipsy lager drinking first lady
- The mechanical advantage gained by being in a position to use a lever
- Exertion of force
- Hold party up a long time
- Investing with borrowed money as a way to amplify potential gains (at the risk of greater losses)
Word definitions for leverage in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In statistics and in particular in regression analysis , leverage is a measure of how far away the independent variable values of an observation are from those of the other observations. High-leverage points are those observations, if any, made at extreme ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the mechanical advantage gained by being in a position to use a lever [syn: purchase ] strategic advantage; power to act effectively; "relatively small groups can sometimes exert immense political leverage" investing with borrowed money as a way to amplify ...
Usage examples of leverage.
MERCHANT PRINCES joe Segal, principal HBC sbarebolderfor a time greatest leveraged buyout in history.
He plays the master-class game, backing smugglers like me, leveraged buyouts, corrupting politicians, software piracy, design piracyI bought the Sony flatscreen templates Event Horizon uses from him.
I was lying down, one hand cuffed to the vertical pipe and no way to get any real leverage with the other.
December before I had what I wanted - and all the time I kept away from you - it only needed Egger to connect my interest in the square with you and I lost any leverage I had.
Fortner Geis found some leverage that would work on Fortner Geis, and they were smart enough to stay back out of range while they squeezed him.
I then took my pike, and crawling up as I had done before I reached the window, where my knowledge of the laws of equilibrium and leverage aided me to insert the ladder to its full length, my companion receiving the end of it.
Caporal, holding his oar about two feet from its end so as to lose all its leverage, pulled furiously, the blade only catching the water occasionally, Jim Mattenburg, with no oar-lock at all, improvised one hand into a lock and hauled frantically with the other one, while Jakie Mattenburg bailed the boat, which was now pretty loggy with its weight of water.
Chapter Five Using her elbows for leverage, Merissa managed to raise her head above pillow level.
In former days, scullers used to gain extra leverage by sliding back and forth on buffalo skins.
From their captive banks, Vial and Cruzat siphoned cash to buy up manufacturersthen leveraged these assets with loans from foreign investors panting to get their piece of the state giveaways.
Through his access to Rossak pharmaceuticals, Arrakis melange, and glowglobe and suspensor products invented by dear Norma, he had leveraged his advantages as much as possible, which pleased him immensely.
It would give Iryala added leverage, because no one could make steel without getting their technetium from us.
He was pushing so hard on the brakes to slow the big Vette that he was accidentally pulling up on the steering wheel for leverage.
Nothing Ambry was doing was against their programming and perhaps the younger man would provide the leverage they had been seeking to get the Piper to cooperate.
Most of that money would go to buy buckytube magnets built on earth, which would go to the manufacturing consortium I was setting up with Stanislaski, so a large chunk of that money would come back to my pocket where I could leverage it back into setting up the system.