lever
Example Sentences
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Analyst Andrew McLeod says Sky Network TV’s management is doing a good job at controlling the levers it can.
Her knockings were made by a floorboard on a lever that she pressed with her foot.
From Literature
The company does have long-term ambitions to open as many as 5,000 new U.S. coffeehouses, but in the near term it needs to pull internal growth levers.
For the Bindery team to make that happen, she said, “they pulled levers I can’t imagine would be possible in a more traditional model.”
From Los Angeles Times
Mortgage rates, one of the main levers of homebuying costs, have moved down significantly since the year began.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
