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Leverage vs Borrow - What's the difference?

leverage | borrow |

As nouns the difference between leverage and borrow

is that leverage is a force compounded by means of a lever rotating around a pivot; see torque while borrow is deviation of the path of a rolling ball from a straight line; slope; slant.

As verbs the difference between leverage and borrow

is that leverage is to use; to exploit; to take full advantage (of something) while borrow is to receive (something) from somebody temporarily, expecting to return it.

As a proper noun Borrow is

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leverage

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • A force compounded by means of a lever rotating around a pivot; see torque.
    • A crowbar uses leverage to pry nails out of wood.
  • By extension, any influence which is compounded or used to gain an advantage.
    • Try using competitors’ prices for leverage in the negotiation.
  • (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.
    • Leverage is great until something goes wrong with your investments and you still have to pay your debts.
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  • (business) The ability to earn very high returns when operating at high capacity utilization of a facility.
    • Their variable-cost-reducing investments have dramatically increased their leverage .
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=April 15 , author=Saj Chowdhury , title=Norwich 2 - 1 Nott'm Forest , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=The former Forest man, who passed a late fitness test, appeared to use Guy Moussi for leverage before nodding in David Fox's free-kick at the far post - his 22nd goal of the season.}}

    Synonyms

    * (force compounded by a lever) mechanical advantage * (use of borrowed fund) financial leverage * (ability to earn high returns from high capacity utilization) operating leverage

    Verb

    (leverag)
  • (transitive, chiefly, US, slang, business) To use; to exploit; to take full advantage (of something).

    • Derived terms

    * leveraged buyout

    Synonyms

    * (take full advantage of) exploit, use

    borrow

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) borwen, .

    Alternative forms

    * boro (Jamaican English)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To receive (something) from somebody temporarily, expecting to return it.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838, page=71, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= End of the peer show , passage=Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close. This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms. Those that want to borrow are matched with those that want to lend.}}
  • To adopt (an idea) as one's own.
    • to borrow the style, manner, or opinions of another
  • * Macaulay
    • rites borrowed from the ancients
  • * Milton
    • It is not hard for any man, who hath a Bible in his hands, to borrow good words and holy sayings in abundance; but to make them his own is a work of grace only from above.
  • (linguistics) To adopt a word from another language.
  • (arithmetic) In a subtraction, to deduct (one) from a digit of the minuend and add ten to the following digit, in order that the subtraction of a larger digit in the subtrahend from the digit in the minuend to which ten is added gives a positive result.
  • (proscribed) To lend.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1951, year_published=1998, publisher=University of Wisconsin Press
    • , editor=James P. Leary, author=The Grenadiers, section=Milwaukee Talk, isbn=9780299160340, page=56 , title= Wisconsin Folklore , passage=“Rosie, borrow me your look looker, I bet my lips are all. Everytime I eat or drink, so quick I gotta fix ’em, yet.”}}
  • * {{quote-book, year=2005, publisher=Trafford Publishing, author=Gladys Blyth
    • , title= Summer at the Cannery , isbn=9781412025362, page=83 , passage=“Ryan, borrow me your lunch pail so we can fill it with blueberries. Susie can make us a pie.”}}
  • * {{quote-book, year=2006, publisher=Andres Rueda, author=Andrés Rueda, section=Chapter 13
    • , title= The Clawback , isbn=9781419647680, page=131 , passage=Georgi reached for his empty pockets. “Can you borrow me your telephone?”}}
  • * {{quote-book, year=2007, publisher=Lulu.com, author=Silvia Cecchini
    • , title= Bach Flowers Fairytales , isbn=9781847533203, page=7 , passage=“Gaia, could you borrow me your pencils ,(SIC) today, if you do not use them?”}}
  • To temporarily obtain (something) for (someone).
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  • To feign or counterfeit.
  • * Spenser
    • borrowed hair
  • * Shakespeare
    • the borrowed majesty of England
    Synonyms
    * (adopt) adopt, use
    Antonyms
    * (receive temporarily) give back (exchanging the transfer of ownership), lend (exchanging the owners), return (exchanging the transfer of ownership) * (in arithmetic) carry (the equivalent reverse procedure in the inverse operation of addition)
    Derived terms
    * borrowed time * borrower

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (golf) Deviation of the path of a rolling ball from a straight line; slope; slant.
    • This putt has a big left-to right borrow on it.

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) borg, from (etyl) (related to Etymology 1, above).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) A ransom; a pledge or guarantee.
  • (archaic) A surety; someone standing bail.
  • * 1819 , Walter Scott, Ivanhoe :
    • ”where am I to find such a sum? If I sell the very pyx and candlesticks on the altar at Jorvaulx, I shall scarce raise the half; and it will be necessary for that purpose that I go to Jorvaulx myself; ye may retain as borrows my two priests.”
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