Rely vs Leverage - What's the difference?
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To rest with confidence, as when fully satisfied of the veracity, integrity, or ability of persons, or of the certainty of facts or of evidence; to have confidence; to trust; to depend.
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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 verbs the difference between rely and leverage
is that rely is to rest with confidence, as when fully satisfied of the veracity, integrity, or ability of persons, or of the certainty of facts or of evidence; to have confidence; to trust; to depend while leverage is (transitive|chiefly|us|slang|business) to use; to exploit; to take full advantage (of something).As a noun leverage is
a force compounded by means of a lever rotating around a pivot; see torque.rely
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Verb
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Derived terms
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*leverage
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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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