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1. The mechanical advantage gained by being in a position to use a lever
   - purchase
    
2. Strategic advantage; power to act effectively
   "relatively small groups can sometimes exert immense political leverage"
    
3. Investing with borrowed money as a way to amplify potential gains (at the risk of greater losses)
   - leveraging

1. Supplement with leverage
   "leverage the money that is already available"
    
2. Provide with leverage
   "We need to leverage this company"

Derived forms: leveraged, leveraging, leverages

See also: lever

Type of: advantage, furnish, investing, investment, mechanical phenomenon, provide, render, supplement, supply, vantage

Encyclopedia: Leverage