Crossword clues for leverage
leverage
- Borrowing as a financial tool
- Power to influence people or things
- The mechanical advantage gained by being in a position to use a lever
- Strategic advantage
- Power to act effectively
- Investing with borrowed money as a way to amplify potential gains (at the risk of greater losses)
- Means of using greater force
- Mechanical advantage
- Speculate, as with borrowed funds
- Strategic advantage gained by tipsy lager drinking first lady
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Leverage \Lev"er*age\ (l[e^]v"[~e]r*[asl]j or l[=e]"v[~e]r*[asl]j), n. The action of a lever; mechanical advantage gained by the lever.
Leverage of a couple (Mech.), the perpendicular distance between the lines of action of two forces which act in parallel and opposite directions.
Leverage of a force, the perpendicular distance from the line in which a force acts upon a body to a point about which the body may be supposed to turn.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1724, "action of a lever," from lever (n.) + -age. Meaning "power or force of a lever" is from 1827; figurative sense from 1858. The financial sense is attested by 1933, American English; as a verb by 1956. Related: Leveraged; leverages; leveraging.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A force compounded by means of a lever rotating around a pivot; see torque. 2 By extension, any influence which is compounded or used to gain an advantage. 3 (context finance English) The use of borrowed funds with a contractually determined return to increase the ability of a business to invest and earn an expected higher return, but usually at high risk. 4 (context business English) The ability to earn very high returns when operating at high capacity utilization of a facility. 5 (rfdef: English) vb. (context transitive chiefly US slang business English) To use; to exploit; to take full advantage (of something).
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 potential gains (at the risk of greater losses) [syn: leveraging]
v. supplement with leverage; "leverage the money that is already available"
provide with leverage; "We need to leverage this company"
Wikipedia
In finance, leverage (sometimes referred to as gearing in the United Kingdom and Australia) is any technique to multiply gains and losses. Most often it involves buying more of an asset by using borrowed funds, with the belief that the income from the asset or asset price appreciation will be more than the cost of borrowing. Almost always this involves the risk that borrowing costs will be larger than the income from the asset, or that the value of the asset will fall, leading to incurred losses.
Leverage or leveraged may refer to:
- Mechanical advantage achieved by using a lever
- Leverage (album), a 2012 album by Lyriel
- Leverage (dance), a type of dance connection
- Leverage (finance), using given resources to magnify a financial outcome
- Leverage (football), a personal foul in American football
- Leverage (negotiation), the ability to influence another side in negotiations
- Leverage (statistics), a concept in regression analysis
- Leverage (TV series), an American comedy-drama crime series
In negotiation, leverage is the ability to influence the other side to move closer to one's negotiating position.
Types of leverage include positive leverage, negative leverage, and normative leverage.
Leverage is the fourth studio album by the German folk metal band Lyriel.
Leverage is an American television drama series, which aired on TNT from December 7, 2008, to December 25, 2012. The series was produced by Electric Entertainment, a production company of executive producer and director Dean Devlin. Leverage follows a five-person team: a thief, a grifter, a hacker, and a retrieval specialist, led by former insurance investigator Nathan Ford, who use their skills to fight corporate and governmental injustices inflicted on ordinary citizens.
Season 1 consists of 13 episodes, which writers John Rogers and Chris Downey and producer Dean Devlin intended to be a complete story should the series not be renewed. Season 2, for which production moved from Los Angeles to Portland, Oregon, ran in two parts: a nine-episode summer season that premiered on July 15, 2009, followed by a further six episodes the following winter. '' Leverage'' moved to Sunday for season 3, which began on June 20, 2010.
Leverage was renewed for a fourth season on July 30, 2010. It premiered on June 26, 2011, and ran for 18 episodes, 10 in the summer and eight in the winter. The continuation of season 4 began on Sunday, November 27, 2011, at 9 pm EST on TNT.
On August 12, 2011, Leverage was renewed for a fifth season, to be both filmed and set in Portland. Season 5 premiered July 15, 2012.
Leverage was canceled on December 21, 2012, amid falling ratings. The final episode, which was produced as a possible series finale, aired on December 25, 2012. On January 9, 2013, Leverage won Favorite Cable TV Drama at the 39th People's Choice Awards.
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 or outlying values of the independent variables such that the lack of neighboring observations means that the fitted regression model will pass close to that particular observation.
Modern computer packages for statistical analysis include, as part of their facilities for regression analysis, various quantitative measures for identifying influential observations: among these measures is partial leverage, a measure of how a variable contributes to the leverage of a datum.
Usage examples of "leverage".
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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.