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词汇 leverage
释义 leverage
noun[ U ]
uk /ˈliː.vər.ɪdʒ/ us /ˈlev.ɚ.ɪdʒ/

leveragenoun[U] (ACTION)


the action or advantage of using a lever: 杠杆作用;杠杆效力
Using ropes and wooden poles for leverage, they haul sacks of cement up the track.利用绳子和木棍取得杠杆作用,他们把几大袋水泥从轨道上拖开。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Raising and lowering
depress
elevate
elevated
hike
hike something up
hoick
hold
hold up
jack
lift
prick (something) up
prise
prize
pry
put something up
raise
re-erect
ride
undulation
winch

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Power to control

leveragenoun[U] (POWER)


power to influence people and get the results you want: 影响力
If the United Nations had more troops in the area, it would have greater leverage.如果联合国在该地区有更多的军队,就会有更大的影响力。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Power to control
absolute authority
ahold
all's well that ends wellidiom
all-powerful
ascendancy
authoritarianism
discretionary
driven
girl power
grip
he who pays the piper calls the tune.idiom
power base
power grab
power structure
power struggle
power-sharing
the hand that rocks the cradle rules the worldidiom
the upper hand
under the command of someone
yoke

leveragenoun[U] (BUSINESS)


finance & economics specialized
the relationship between the amount of money that a company owes to banks and the value of the company杠杆比率(公司举债数目与其价值之比)
finance & economics specialized
the act of using borrowed money to buy an investment or a company: 借贷收购,信贷投机,杠杆作用
With leverage, the investor's $100,000 buys $500,000 or more of stock if he wants.通过举债经营的方式,投资人的10万美元买到了价值50万美元或更多的股票。
Synonym
gearing
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Borrowing & lending
amortizable
amortization
amortize
bond measure
bond referendum
bonded
credit limit
debt
get behind
hole
loan
microcredit
microloan
non-current
non-interest
non-prime
outstanding
use something as collateral
usury
write something off

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Mergers & acquisitions
leverage
verb[ T ]
uk /ˈliː.vər.ɪdʒ/ us /ˈlev.ɚ.ɪdʒ/

leverageverb[T] (USE)


to use something that you already have in order to achieve something new or better: 借助已有的…实现新(或更好)的目标
We can gain a market advantage by leveraging our network of partners.我们可以借助合伙人网络获得市场优势。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Affecting and influencing
across-the-board
affect
applicability
be/fall under someone's influence/spellidiom
bear on something
carry
colour
ear
inroad
inspiration
instrumental
instrumentality
instrumentally
pen
rail
sphere of influence
spill
spill over
sportswashing
start (something) off

leverageverb[T] (BUSINESS)


finance & economics specialized
to use borrowed money to buy an investment or company: 借贷收购,信贷投机,杠杆作用
Home equity is invaluable if you leverage it to build wealth.你的房产如果能作为贷款担保融资,那将极有价值。
finance & economics specialized
to use money to get more money: 以钱生钱
One of the easiest ways to leverage a charitable gift is to get your employer to match it. 让一笔慈善捐赠款增加的最容易的办法是让你的雇主捐出同样多的钱。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Borrowing & lending
amortizable
amortization
amortize
bond measure
bond referendum
bonded
credit limit
debt
get behind
hole
loan
microcredit
microloan
non-current
non-interest
non-prime
outstanding
use something as collateral
usury
write something off

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Mergers & acquisitions
Earning money

Related word


leveraged

leverage | American Dictionary


leverage
noun[ U ]
us/ˈlev·ər·ɪdʒ, ˈli·vər-/
the power to influence results:
financial/political leverage
The US has very little leverage in that part of the world.
leverage
verb[ T ]
us/ˈlev·ə·rɪdʒ, ˈli·və-/
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.

leverage | Business English


leverage
noun[ U ]
uk /ˈliːvərɪdʒ/ us /ˈlevərɪdʒ/
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.
FINANCE
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.
Compare
gearing
FINANCE
the act of using borrowed money to buy an investment or a company:
With leverage, the investor's $100,000 buys $500,000 or more of stock if he wants.

See also


debt leverage
financial leverage
loan leverage
leverage
verb[ T ]
uk /ˈliːvərɪdʒ/ us /ˈlevərɪdʒ/
to use something that you already have, such as a resource, in order to achieve something new or better:
This new strategy is about leveraging the relationships we have with our customers.
leverage sth into sthIf you enjoy the work, it should be possible to leverage your temporary assignment into a full-time job.
FINANCE
to use borrowed money to buy an investment or a company:
The money could be used to leverage millions of additional dollars.

leveraging


noun[ U ]
FINANCE
Through aggressive leveraging, it grew into one of the largest private enterprises in the country.

Phrasal verb


leverage (sth) up

Examples of leverage


leverage
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.
For systems style work in an advanced programming language, the challenge is often to leverage the advantages of the language.
They recognize that public support strengthens the moorings of federal institutions and gives them additional leverage in interactions with other levels of government.
Federal regulation thus proceeded without the leverage of statutory law, the stronger of these two regulatory traditions.
First, since the domains are not closed, there is no strong sense in which notions of sublanguage can be leveraged.
This would provide more leverage by increasing the number of observations from the cases examined.
The lessening of weight fluctuations and the containment of chronic thinness, as compared with the 1960s, gave further leverage for cushioning seasonal hunger.
Any foreign company that was dominant in domestically manufactured edible oils and industrial fats might hope to exercise some leverage.
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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