leverage
Example Sentences
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Kovrig described Chinese negotiators as "extremely adroit, calculating, and always looking for leverage".
From BBC
These headwinds are likely to weaken through operating leverage and the company’s focus on product-level margin expansion and the higher-margin protection segment, the analysts say in a note.
The mystique of the All Blacks has also been dented by the need to leverage it for revenue.
From BBC
As this adjustment requires investors to commit more of their own capital when engaging in leveraged stock purchases, this effectively reduces the amount of borrowed money allowed in the system, he says.
Now leverage is widely available for even more volatile individual stocks.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
