Leverage vs Exert - What's the difference?
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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).
To put in vigorous action.
To make use of, to apply, especially of something non-material.
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As verbs the difference between leverage and exert
is that leverage is (transitive|chiefly|us|slang|business) to use; to exploit; to take full advantage (of something) while exert is to put in vigorous action.As a noun leverage
is a force compounded by means of a lever rotating around a pivot; see torque.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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Synonyms
* (force compounded by a lever) mechanical advantage * (use of borrowed fund) financial leverage * (ability to earn high returns from high capacity utilization) operating leverageVerb
(leverag)Derived terms
* leveraged buyoutSynonyms
* (take full advantage of) exploit, useexert
English
Verb
(en verb)citation, passage=Meanwhile Nanny Broome was recovering from her initial panic and seemed anxious to make up for any kudos she might have lost, by exerting her personality to the utmost. She took the policeman's helmet and placed it on a chair, and unfolded his tunic to shake it and fold it up again for him.}}
Chelsea 1-0 Barcelona, passage=Di Matteo clearly saw Drogba's power as a potential threat to a Barcelona defence stripped of Gerard Pique - but he barely caught sight of goal in a first 45 minutes in which the Catalans exerted their technical superiority.}}