leverage
n. 槓桿作用; 優勢,力量; 影響力
v. 舉債經營; 發揮槓桿作用; 施加影響; 利用
Leverage is the ability to influence situations or people so that you can control what happens.
His function as a Mayor affords him the leverage to get things done through attending committee meetings.
他的市長身份使他有能力透過出席委員會會議來達成一些事情。
Leverage is the force that is applied to an object when something such as a lever is used.
The spade and fork have longer shafts, providing better leverage.
鍬和耙的手柄較長,可發揮較好的槓桿作用。
To leverage a company or investment means to use borrowed money in order to buy it or pay for it.
He might feel that leveraging the company at a time when he sees tremendous growth opportunities would be a mistake.
他也許覺得,在他認為大有可為的時候讓公司借貸經營是一個錯誤。
1. the mechanical advantage gained by being in a position to use a lever
2. strategic advantage; power to act effectively;
3. investing with borrowed money as a way to amplify potential gains (at the risk of greater losses)
1. supplement with leverage;
2. provide with leverage;
They had good companies but there was too much financial engineering and too much leverage.
他們擁有優秀的公司,但存在太多金融工程和負債.
Hedge funds needed cash to fund redemptions and reduce leverage as assets declined.
對沖基金需要現金基金贖回和減少槓桿資產下降.
Finally it is about the electronic commerce displays the technical leverage of the product technological question.
最後則是電子商務中發揮技術槓桿作用的產品技術問題.
Black America has something even more important than committee chairs: leverage.
比起各個委員會的主席職位,美國黑人擁有更為重要的東西: 影響力.
Without military leverage, peaceful mediation was not working.
沒有軍事上的優勢, 和平調停是不起作用的.