Leverage

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

(noun.) strategic advantage; power to act effectively; 'relatively small groups can sometimes exert immense political leverage'.

(noun.) the mechanical advantage gained by being in a position to use a lever.

(verb.) provide with leverage; 'We need to leverage this company'.

(verb.) supplement with leverage; 'leverage the money that is already available'.

录入:莫伊拉

• That hinterland affects daily life, and the church which cannot get a leverage on it by any other method than entering into immediate political controversy is simply a church that is dead. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• The wind strikes the front, but rarely touches the back of the plane, and so gains a great leverage that adds materially to its power to overturn the machine. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• To get ready for something, one knows not what nor why, is to throw away the leverage that exists, and to seek for motive power in a vague chance. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.

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