leverage

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

• A crowbar uses leverage to pry nails out of wood.

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

• Try using competitors’ prices for leverage in the negotiation.

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.uncountableusually

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

The debt-to-equity ratio.uncountableusually

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

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

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

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

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

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