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"ref": "2021 July 23, Eric Lipton, Ephrat Livni, “‘I Feel Conflicted’: Crypto’s Offshore Trading Moguls Talk Shop”, in The New York Times, →ISSN",
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"sense": "influence which is compounded or used to gain an advantage",
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"masculine"
],
"word": "Einfluss"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "hanafa",
"sense": "influence which is compounded or used to gain an advantage",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "הנפה"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "influence which is compounded or used to gain an advantage",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "influenza"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "influence which is compounded or used to gain an advantage",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"plural"
],
"word": "naciski"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "ryčág",
"sense": "influence which is compounded or used to gain an advantage",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "рыча́г"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "influence which is compounded or used to gain an advantage",
"word": "forsiranje"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "influence which is compounded or used to gain an advantage",
"word": "uticaj"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "influence which is compounded or used to gain an advantage",
"word": "utjecaj"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "influence which is compounded or used to gain an advantage",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "enchufe"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "influence which is compounded or used to gain an advantage",
"word": "influencia"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "influence which is compounded or used to gain an advantage",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "palanca"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "influence which is compounded or used to gain an advantage",
"word": "inflytande"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "influence which is compounded or used to gain an advantage",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "hävstångseffekt"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "influence which is compounded or used to gain an advantage",
"word": "koz"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "use of borrowed funds",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "palanquejament"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "use of borrowed funds",
"word": "leverage"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "use of borrowed funds",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "hefboomfonds"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "use of borrowed funds",
"word": "levil-efika prunto"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "use of borrowed funds",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "effet de levier"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "use of borrowed funds",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Fremdfinanzierungsgrad"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "use of borrowed funds",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Fremdkapitalaufnahme"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "use of borrowed funds",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Verschuldungsgrad"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "use of borrowed funds",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Hebelwirkung"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "móchlefsi",
"sense": "use of borrowed funds",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "μόχλευση"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "rebarejji",
"sense": "use of borrowed funds",
"word": "レバレッジ"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "reba",
"sense": "use of borrowed funds",
"word": "レバ"
},
{
"code": "kk",
"lang": "Kazakh",
"roman": "leveraj",
"sense": "use of borrowed funds",
"word": "левераж"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "use of borrowed funds",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "dźwignia finansowa"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "use of borrowed funds",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "lewarowanie"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "use of borrowed funds",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "alavancagem"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "use of borrowed funds",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "apalancamiento"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "use of borrowed funds",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "hävstång"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "use of borrowed funds",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "hävstångseffekt"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "ability to earn very high returns",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "rendiment"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "ability to earn very high returns",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Hebelwirkung"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "ability to earn very high returns",
"word": "Hebel"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "ability to earn very high returns",
"word": "manivela"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"leverage"
],
"word": "leverage"
}
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"English 3-syllable words",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms suffixed with -age",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
"English uncountable nouns",
"English verbs",
"Requests for review of Dutch translations",
"Requests for review of Spanish translations"
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "leveraged buyout"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "lever",
"3": "age"
},
"expansion": "lever + -age",
"name": "suffix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "lever + -age",
"forms": [
{
"form": "leverages",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "leveraging",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "leveraged",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "leveraged",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
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"args": {},
"expansion": "leverage (third-person singular simple present leverages, present participle leveraging, simple past and past participle leveraged)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"related": [
{
"word": "force multiplier"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"American English",
"English slang",
"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with usage examples",
"English transitive verbs",
"en:Business"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "They plan to leverage the publicity into a good distribution agreement.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "They plan to leverage off the publicity to get a good distribution agreement.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Advancing disciplinary literacy through English for academic purposes: Discipline-specific wordlists, collocations and word families for eight secondary subjects”, in Journal of English for Academic Purposes, volume 35, →DOI, page 105",
"text": "EAP research has developed advanced methods for producing corpus-informed vocabulary resources, but these have yet to be fully leveraged to promote disciplinary literacy within the secondary school context.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To use; to exploit; to manipulate in order to take full advantage (of something)."
],
"links": [
[
"business",
"business"
],
[
"use",
"use"
],
[
"manipulate",
"manipulate"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive, chiefly US, slang, business) To use; to exploit; to manipulate in order to take full advantage (of something)."
],
"tags": [
"US",
"slang",
"transitive"
],
"topics": [
"business"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈlɛv(ə)ɹɪd͡ʒ/"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈliːv(ə)ɹɪd͡ʒ/"
},
{
"audio": "en-us-leverage.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/49/En-us-leverage.ogg/En-us-leverage.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/49/En-us-leverage.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
],
"text": "Audio (US)"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"sense": "take full advantage of",
"word": "exploit"
},
{
"sense": "take full advantage of",
"word": "use"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
"word": "aprofitar"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
"word": "avantaĝutiligi"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
"word": "uzi levilan efikon"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
"word": "profiter (de quelque chose)"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
"word": "exploiter"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
"word": "tirer parti (de quelque chose)"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
"word": "aproveitar"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
"word": "aushebeln"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
"word": "hebeln"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
"word": "wirksam einsetzen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
"word": "voll zunutze machen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
"word": "ausnutzen"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "axiopoió",
"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
"word": "αξιοποιώ"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "ekmetallévomai",
"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
"word": "εκμεταλλεύομαι"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "minéf",
"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
"word": "מינף"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
"word": "kihasznál"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
"word": "kiaknáz"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
"word": "hasznosít"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
"word": "hasznot húz"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
"word": "profitál"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
"word": "bevet"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"english": "exerting influence",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
"word": "rávesz"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
"word": "elér"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
"word": "befolyásol"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
"word": "fare leva su"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
"word": "approfittare di"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
"word": "avvantaggiarsi di"
},
{
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
"word": "dra fordel av"
},
{
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
"word": "profittere på"
},
{
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
"word": "utnytte"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "wykorzystywać"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "wykorzystać"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
"word": "aproveitar"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "maksimalʹno ispolʹzovatʹ",
"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
"word": "максимально использовать"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "primenjatʹ",
"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "применять"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "ulučšatʹ",
"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "улучшать"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "optimizirovatʹ",
"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "оптимизировать"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "vygodno ispolʹzovatʹ",
"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
"word": "выгодно использовать"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic"
],
"word": "профити́рати"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
"tags": [
"Latin"
],
"word": "profitírati"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
"word": "použiť pákový efekt"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
"word": "beneficiarse"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
"word": "aprovecharse de"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
"word": "apalancar"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
"word": "çıkarı için kullanmak"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"leverage"
],
"word": "leverage"
}
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