English Dictionary

leverage

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈlɛv(ə)ɹɪd͡ʒ/

名詞

不可算名詞 通常 広義

A force compounded by means of a lever rotating around a pivot; see torque. / (by extension) Any influence which is compounded or used to gain an advantage.

日本語の意味

レバー（てこの原理）を用いて増幅された力、またはその力の働き（トルク） / 転じて、優位性を得るために働く影響力や効果

By adjusting the length of the arm, the engineers increased the leverage to lift the heavy beam.

アームの長さを調整することで、技術者たちは重い梁を持ち上げるためのてこの原理による力を増やした。

意味（1）

A force compounded by means of a lever rotating around a pivot; see torque.

A crowbar uses leverage to pry nails out of wood.

意味（2）

(by extension) Any influence which is compounded or used to gain an advantage.

Try using competitors’ prices for leverage in the negotiation.

意味（3）

(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.

Leverage is great until something goes wrong with your investments and you still have to pay your debts.

意味（4）

(finance) The debt-to-equity ratio.

In such cases where there is a multiple capital structure the factor known as leverage comes into play.

意味（5）

(business) The ability to earn very high returns when operating at high-capacity utilization of a facility.

Their variable-cost-reducing investments have dramatically increased their leverage.

leverages （ plural ）