leverage

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n. 杠杆作用, 杠杆装置, 杠杆效率 [医] 杠杆率

发音

US /ˈlɛv(ə)ɹɪd͡ʒ/

词形变化

leverages 复数 leverages leveraged leverages 三单 leveraging leveraging 现在分词 leveraged 过去式 leveraged 过去分词

教材释义与例句

名词

手段，影响力；杠杆作用；杠杆效率

动词

利用；举债经营

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

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

    不可数

    A crowbar uses leverage to pry nails out of wood.

  2. 2.

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

    不可数 引申义

    Try using competitors’ prices for leverage in the negotiation.

  3. 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.

    不可数 商务 金融

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

  4. 4.

    The debt-to-equity ratio.

    不可数 商务 金融
  5. 5.

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

    不可数 商务

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

  6. 6.

    The distance of between an independent observation and other observations.

    不可数 数学
v.
  1. 1.

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

    利用

    美国 俚语 及物 商务

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

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

词汇关系

名词

同义词 1

purchase

上位词 4

advantage investment investing vantage

下位词 1

bargaining chip
动词

上位词 6

offer provide supply render supplement furnish

相关短语

operating leverage [经] 营业杠杆, 营业杠杆作用

词源

From lever + -age. The verb likely comes from martial arts/judo usage, where one would "use an opponent's leverage (i.e. their weight, height, centre of balance, etc.)" against them in order to defeat them.

来源：wiktionary