2 the relationship between the amount of money that a company owes to banks and the value of the company
3 to use something that you already have in order to achieve something new or better:
4 to use borrowed money to buy an investment or company:
6 to use borrowed money for investments, esp. in order to buy a large enough part of a business so that you can control it:
They can leverage a very small investment into millions of dollars.
7 the power to influence people and get the results you want:
This gives advertisers more leverage when it comes time to negotiate rates.
Campaigners are trying to get as much political leverage on the situation as possible.
States do not have the economic leverage to influence a foreign country.
Labor experts say a service economy can give leverage to unionized workers.
8 the relationship between the amount of money that a company owes and its share capital or value:
The company plans to reduce the leverage to between 40% and 60% by the year end.
The bank was asked to improve its capitalization and reduce its leverage.
The figure shows that they had high growth rates of bank lending and high leverage.
Even if banks were able to rush back into heavy leverage soon, investors wouldn't stand for it.
9 the act of using borrowed money to buy an investment or a company:
10 to use something that you already have, such as a resource, in order to achieve something new or better:
11 to use borrowed money to buy an investment or a company:
The money could be used to leverage millions of additional dollars.
However, today this second category of players has much less economic, political and military leverage.
Thus, the leverage of the legislature may be higher, but adaptation by courts may be more efficient.
This could be based on the different 'leverage' of each group.
Undervaluation of the capital base may significantly increase the leverage of investment restrictions.
The predominantly engagement, potential threat group was attacked as the mainstream, but it survived as the best option for global political leverage.
Thus, encouraging inter-agency and public involvement meant that, when points of contention arose later in the process, participants had little leverage for dispute.
Finally, weavers exerted a great deal of leverage in the recruitment process.
This structure gave the non-profit partner considerable negotiating leverage but not exclusive control.
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