How to pronounce “leverage”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• A force compounded by means of a lever rotating around a pivot.
• (by extension) Any influence which is compounded or used to gain an advantage.
• (finance) 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.
• (finance) The debt-to-equity ratio.
• (business) The ability to earn very high returns when operating at high-capacity utilization of a facility.
• (statistics, regression analytics) The distance of between an independent observation and other observations.
• [Verb]
• (transitive, chiefly US, slang, business) To use; to exploit; to manipulate in order to take full advantage (of something).

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