Leverage or leveraged may refer to:
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Leverage (mechanics)
A lever is a simple machine consisting of a beam or rigid rod pivoted at a fixed hinge, or '' fulcrum''. A lever is a rigid body capable of rotating on a point on itself. On the basis of the locations of fulcrum, load, and effort, the lever is ...
, mechanical advantage achieved by using a lever
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''Leverage'' (album), a 2012 album by Lyriel
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Leverage (dance)
In partner dancing, connection is physical, non-verbal communication between dancers to facilitate synchronized or coordinated dance movements. Some forms of connection involve "lead/follow" in which one dancer (the "lead") directs the movements o ...
, a type of dance connection
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Leverage (finance)
In finance, leverage, also known as gearing, is any technique involving borrowing funds to buy an investment.
Financial leverage is named after a lever in physics, which amplifies a small input force into a greater output force. Financial leverag ...
, using given resources to magnify a financial outcome
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Leverage (football)
In gridiron football, a penalty is a sanction assessed against a team for a violation of the rules, called a foul. Officials initially signal penalties by tossing a bright yellow colored penalty flag onto the field toward or at the spot of a fou ...
, a personal foul in American football
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Leverage (negotiation) In negotiation, leverage is the power that one side of a negotiation has to influence the other side to move closer to their negotiating position. A party's leverage is based on its ability to award benefits or impose costs on the other side. Anothe ...
, the ability to influence another side in negotiations
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Leverage (statistics)
In statistics and in particular in regression analysis, leverage is a measure of how far away the independent variable values of an observation are from those of the other observations. ''High-leverage points'', if any, are outliers with respect t ...
, a concept in regression analysis
Television
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''Leverage'' (American TV series), a 2008–2012 American comedy-drama crime television series
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Leverage: Redemption'', a 2021 revival of the American series
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''Leverage'' (South Korean TV series), a 2019 South Korean television series
*"Leverage", Episode 18 of mermaid drama ''
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See also
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Leveraged buyout
A leveraged buyout (LBO) is the acquisition of a company using a significant proportion of borrowed money (Leverage (finance), leverage) to fund the acquisition with the remainder of the purchase price funded with private equity. The assets of t ...
, using debt to gain control of a company's equity
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Lever (disambiguation)
A lever is a mechanical device to multiply force.
Lever may also refer to: Entertainment and media
* "Lever" (song), a 1998 single by The Mavis's
* "The Lever" (song), a 2002 song by Silverchair
*'' The Lever'', an American news outlet
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