leverage

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Using state money as a leverage is also a "red herring," he said, because state money is not being used to show the film.

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  1. noun The action of a lever.
  2. noun The mechanical advantage of a lever.
  3. noun Positional advantage; power to act effectively: "started his . . . career with far more social leverage than his father had enjoyed” (Doris Kearns Goodwin).
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  • You might argue about the sanity of it, but the leverage is real. —  David Keith's unusual climate change idea
  • But I want to talk about a different kind of leverage, the kind that you can get in product development.
  • Thus the rise in the extension of "leverage" - the ratio of borrowed to held assets - is not a "failure of fundamentals" but an absolute inevitability of finance capital. —  jane dark's sugarhigh!
  • Occupancy de-leverage was a little bit north of 100 basis points in the fourth quarter. —  SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page
  • The French have actually caught onto that, but their narrow-mindedness has driven them to focus on hedge funds 'use of leverage which is only a tiny part of the problem. —  Safehaven
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