Leverage vs Accustom - What's the difference?
leverage | accustom |
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.
* {{quote-news
, year=2011
, date=April 15
, author=Saj Chowdhury
, title=Norwich 2 - 1 Nott'm Forest
, work=BBC Sport
(transitive, chiefly, US, slang, business) To use; to exploit; to take full advantage (of something).
(lb) To make familiar by use; to cause to accept; to habituate, familiarize, or inure; -- with to .
*ca. 1753 , (John Hawkesworth) et al., Adventurer
*:I shall always fear that he who accustoms himself to fraud in little things, wants only opportunity to practice it in greater.
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*:“[…] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons ! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”
To be wont.
:(Carew)
To cohabit.
*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:We with the best men accustom openly; you with the basest commit private adulteries.
As nouns the difference between leverage and accustom
is that leverage is a force compounded by means of a lever rotating around a pivot; see torque while accustom is custom.As verbs the difference between leverage and accustom
is that leverage is to use; to exploit; to take full advantage (of something) while accustom is to make familiar by use; to cause to accept; to habituate, familiarize, or inure; -- with to.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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