leverage — Dicionário de inglês

Substantivo

1. A force compounded by means of a lever rotating around a pivot.

   Uso

   • incontável
   • usually

   Sinônimos

   mechanical advantage

   Exemplos

   A crowbar uses leverage to pry nails out of wood.

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   In order to proportion the braking force to the weight carried by a wheel - a matter of special importance in the braking of wagons - variable leverage systems are now being introduced in which the end of one axle spring is linked to a control spring in the change-over valve, so automatically varying the leverage exerted by the brake-rod according to whether the wagon is full or empty.

2. Any influence which is compounded or used to gain an advantage.

   Uso

   • broadly
   • incontável
   • usually

   Exemplos

   Try using competitors’ prices for leverage in the negotiation.

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   The former Forest man, who passed a late fitness test, appeared to use Guy Moussi for leverage before nodding in David Fox's free-kick at the far post - his 22nd goal of the season.

3. The use of borrowed funds with a contractually determined return to increase the ability to invest and earn an expected higher return, but usually at high risk.

   Uso

   • incontável
   • usually

   Exemplos

   Leverage is great until something goes wrong with your investments and you still have to pay your debts.

   Online margin trading is usually based on leverage, where the brokerage effectively lets you borrow more money than you have deposited as collateral.

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   Both exchanges offer crypto derivatives, which are bets on future fluctuations in cryptocurrency prices. They also offer extreme leverage — up to 125 times on Binance. That means a $1,000 down payment can be turned into a $125,000 gamble.

   S.E.C. rules cap E.T.F.s from offering more than two times leverage. The nine fund managers who received a letter from the S.E.C. sought to introduce products that offered three and, in some cases, five times leverage.

4. The debt-to-equity ratio.

   Uso

   • incontável
   • usually

   Sinônimos

   gearing

   Exemplos

   In such cases where there is a multiple capital structure the factor known as leverage comes into play.

5. The ability to earn very high returns when operating at high-capacity utilization of a facility.

   Uso

   • incontável
   • usually

   Sinônimos

   operating leverage

   Exemplos

   Their variable-cost-reducing investments have dramatically increased their leverage.

6. The distance of between an independent observation and other observations.

   Uso

   • incontável
   • usually

Verbo

1. To use; to exploit; to manipulate in order to take full advantage (of something).

   Uso

   • uso nos Estados Unidos
   • gíria
   • transitivo

   Palavras relacionadas

   force multiplier

   Exemplos

   They plan to leverage the publicity into a good distribution agreement.

   They plan to leverage off the publicity to get a good distribution agreement.

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   EAP research has developed advanced methods for producing corpus-informed vocabulary resources, but these have yet to be fully leveraged to promote disciplinary literacy within the secondary school context.

   Catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide (AIR) today announced that Sompo International, a global specialty provider of property and casualty insurance and reinsurance, is leveraging AIR's casualty analytics platform, Arium, to better understand and quantify its liability and loss potential across multiple commercial liability lines of business.

   Thomas H. Lee, a private equity financier who pioneered the use of leveraged buyouts that helped to reshape corporate America, has died, according to a notice from his former firm that still bears his name.

   Russian forces continue to prioritize their offensive push towards Pokrovsk, and the operational significance of seizing the city will likely in part depend on the Russian military's ability to leverage the city in wider operational maneuver in Donetsk Oblast.

Substantivo

1. the mechanical advantage gained by being in a position to use a lever

   Sinônimos

   purchase

   Termos mais gerais

   mechanical phenomenon

2. strategic advantage; power to act effectively

   Termos mais gerais

   advantagevantage

   Exemplos

   relatively small groups can sometimes exert immense political leverage

3. investing with borrowed money as a way to amplify potential gains (at the risk of greater losses)

   Sinônimos

   leveraging

   Termos mais gerais

   investinginvestment

Verbo

1. supplement with leverage

   Termos mais gerais

   supplement

   Exemplos

   leverage the money that is already available

2. provide with leverage

   Termos mais gerais

   supplyproviderenderfurnishoffer

   Exemplos

   We need to leverage this company