Usually means: Using borrowed capital to invest.
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We found 58 dictionaries that define the word leverage:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. leverage: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. leverage: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. leverage: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. leverage: Collins English Dictionary
  5. leverage: Vocabulary.com
  6. Leverage, leverage: Wordnik
  7. leverage: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. leverage: Wiktionary
  9. leverage: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. leverage: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. leverage: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. leverage: Dictionary.com
  13. leverage: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  15. Leverage: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. leverage: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. leverage: Rhymezone
  18. leverage: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. leverage: Free Dictionary
  20. leverage: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. leverage: Dictionary/thesaurus
  22. leverage: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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

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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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