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Manage vs Leverage - What's the difference?

manage | leverage |

As verbs the difference between manage and leverage

is that manage is to direct or be in charge of while leverage is (transitive|chiefly|us|slang|business) to use; to exploit; to take full advantage (of something).

As nouns the difference between manage and leverage

is that manage is the act of managing or controlling something while leverage is a force compounded by means of a lever rotating around a pivot; see torque.

manage

English

Verb

(manag)
  • To direct or be in charge of.
  • To handle or control (a situation, job).
  • To handle with skill, wield (a tool, weapon etc.).
  • * (Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)
  • It was so much his interest to manage his Protestant subjects.
  • * 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , II.ii:
  • The most vnruly, and the boldest boy, / That euer warlike weapons menaged [...].
  • To succeed at an attempt
  • * , chapter=7
  • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=Old Applegate, in the stern, just set and looked at me, and Lord James, amidship, waved both arms and kept hollering for help. I took a couple of everlasting big strokes and managed to grab hold of the skiff's rail, close to the stern.}}
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-11-30, volume=409, issue=8864, magazine=(The Economist), author=Paul Davis
  • , title= Letters: Say it as simply as possible , passage=Congratulations on managing to use the phrase “preponderant criterion” in a chart (“ On your marks”, November 9th). Was this the work of a kakorrhaphiophobic journalist set a challenge by his colleagues, or simply an example of glossolalia?}}
  • To achieve without fuss, or without outside help.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= Welcome to the plastisphere , passage=Plastics are energy-rich substances, which is why many of them burn so readily. Any organism that could unlock and use that energy would do well in the Anthropocene. Terrestrial bacteria and fungi which can manage this trick are already familiar to experts in the field.}}
  • To train (a horse) in the manege; to exercise in graceful or artful action.
  • (obsolete) To treat with care; to husband.
  • (Dryden)
  • (obsolete) To bring about; to contrive.
  • (Shakespeare)

    Synonyms

    * (l)

    Derived terms

    * manageable * managed care * managed code * managed house * management * manager * managerial * unmanageable

    Noun

    (-)
  • The act of managing or controlling something.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.xii:
  • the winged God himselfe / Came riding on a Lion rauenous, / Taught to obay the menage of that Elfe [...].
  • * Francis Bacon
  • Young men, in the conduct and manage of actions, embrace more than they can hold.
  • * Shakespeare
  • the unlucky manage of this fatal brawl
  • (horseriding) .
  • See also

    * man * (projectlink)

    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.
  • *
  • (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