Combine vs Leverage - What's the difference?
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To bring (two or more things or activities) together; to unite.
* (John Dryden)
* Sir (Walter Scott)
* {{quote-magazine, date=2012-03, author=William E. Carter, Merri Sue Carter
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, title= To have two or more things or properties that function together.
To come together; to unite.
(card games) In the game of casino, to play a card which will take two or more cards whose aggregate number of pips equals those of the card played.
(obsolete) To bind; to hold by a moral tie.
* (William Shakespeare)
A combine harvester
A combination
# Especially, a joint enterprise of whatever legal form for a purpose of business or in any way promoting the interests of the participants, sometimes with monopolistic intentions.
# An industrial conglomeration in a socialist country, particularly in the former .
A force compounded by means of a lever rotating around a pivot; see torque.
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 of a business to invest and earn an expected higher return, but usually at high risk.
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(business) The ability to earn very high returns when operating at high capacity utilization of a facility.
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(transitive, chiefly, US, slang, business) To use; to exploit; to take full advantage (of something).
As a proper noun combine
is (colloquial) london underground.As a noun leverage is
a force compounded by means of a lever rotating around a pivot; see torque.As a verb leverage is
(transitive|chiefly|us|slang|business) to use; to exploit; to take full advantage (of something).combine
English
Verb
(combin)- You with your foes combine , / And seem your own destruction to design.
- So sweet did harp and voice combine .
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- Joe combines the intelligence of a rock with the honesty of a politician.
- two substances that easily combine
- I am combined by a sacred vow.
Derived terms
* combination * combinable * combinatory * combined * recombineSynonyms
* fuse * merge * uniteAntonyms
* divide * separate * disuniteNoun
(en noun)- We can't finish harvesting because our combine is stuck in the mud.
- The telecom companies were accused of having formed an illegal combine in order to hike up the network charges.
leverage
English
Noun
(en-noun)- A crowbar uses leverage to pry nails out of wood.
- Try using competitors’ prices for leverage in the negotiation.
- Leverage is great until something goes wrong with your investments and you still have to pay your debts.
- Their variable-cost-reducing investments have dramatically increased their leverage .
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