Usually means: Using borrowed capital to invest.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. leverage: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. leverage: Merriam-Webster
  3. leverage: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. leverage: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. leverage: Collins English Dictionary
  6. leverage: Vocabulary.com
  7. Leverage, leverage: Wordnik
  8. leverage: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. leverage: Wiktionary
  10. leverage: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. leverage: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. leverage: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. leverage: Dictionary.com
  14. leverage: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Leverage (South Korean TV series), Leverage (TV series), Leverage (album), Leverage (finance), Leverage (mechanics), Leverage (negotiation), Leverage (season 5), Leverage (statistics), Leverage: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Leverage: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. leverage: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. leverage: Rhymezone
  19. leverage: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. leverage: FreeDictionary.org
  21. leverage: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. leverage: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. leverage: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. leverage: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  3. leverage: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary
  4. leverage: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  5. leverage: Law.com Dictionary
  6. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  7. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  8. LEVERAGE: Accounting Glossary
  9. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  10. Leverage: bizterms.net
  11. Leverage: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  12. Leverage: Futures and Options Market Terminology
  13. leverage: Finance-Glossary.com
  14. MonsterMoving Mortgage Glossary (No longer online)
  15. Leverage: Management Dictionary
  16. Leverage: Inflation Glossary
  17. Leverage: Investopedia
  18. Comprehensive Financial (No longer online)
  19. Leverage: Wideman Comparative Glossary of Project Management Terms
  20. Leverage: Securities Terminology
  21. Dictionary of Management Jargon (No longer online)
  22. leverage: Legal dictionary
  23. Leverage (finance), leverage: Financial dictionary
  24. Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary (No longer online)
  25. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)
  26. Yahoo Tax Center Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. leverage: Netlingo
  2. The Microsoft Lexicon (No longer online)
  3. Leverage (finance), leverage: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Leverage (finance), leverage: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Leverage: Fundamental Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. leverage: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See leveraged as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A force compounded by means of a lever rotating around a pivot; see torque.
noun:  (by extension) Any influence which is compounded or used to gain an advantage.
noun:  (finance) The use of borrowed funds with a contractually determined return to increase the ability to invest and earn an expected higher return, but usually at high risk.
noun:  (finance) The debt-to-equity ratio.
noun:  (business) The ability to earn very high returns when operating at high-capacity utilization of a facility.
verb:  (transitive, chiefly US, slang, business) To use; to exploit; to manipulate in order to take full advantage (of something).

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