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Originally, the extra force you get from using a lever — a long bar that lets you lift something heavy with less effort. Today it's mostly used to mean power or advantage that helps you get what you want, especially in business or negotiating — "leverage" in a deal. As a verb, "to leverage" something means to use an advantage you already have to get more, like leveraging your experience to get a promotion. In finance, "leverage" specifically means borrowing money to invest, hoping to earn more than the cost of the loan.
槓桿作用；影響力、優勢（用某項條件爭取好處）
組成lever + "-age."
同家族的字
- leverthe base word; leverage is the power or advantage you get from using a lever, literally or figuratively
原始詞典資料7 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
leveragenoun/ˈlɛv.(ə.)ɹɪd͡ʒ/
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A force compounded by means of a lever rotating around a pivot.
- A crowbar uses leverage to pry nails out of wood.
- 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.
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Any influence which is compounded or used to gain an advantage.
- Try using competitors’ prices for leverage in the negotiation.
- 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.
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businessfinanceThe 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.
- 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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businessfinanceThe debt-to-equity ratio.
- In such cases where there is a multiple capital structure the factor known as leverage comes into play.
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businessThe ability to earn very high returns when operating at high-capacity utilization of a facility.
- Their variable-cost-reducing investments have dramatically increased their leverage.
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mathematicssciencesstatisticsThe distance of between an independent observation and other observations.
leverageverb/ˈlɛv.(ə.)ɹɪd͡ʒ/
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slangbusinessTo use; to exploit; to manipulate in order to take full advantage (of something).
- They plan to leverage the publicity into a good distribution agreement.
- They plan to leverage off the publicity to get a good distribution agreement.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。