different between mastery vs leverage

English

Etymology

From Old French maistrie.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?mæst??i/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?m??st(?)?i/

Noun

mastery (usually uncountable, plural masteries)

1. The position or authority of a master; dominion; command; supremacy; superiority.
   • c. 1610, Sir Walter Raleigh, The Misery of Invasive War

     If divided by mountains, they will fight for the mastery of the passages of the tops.
2. Superiority in war or competition; victory; triumph; preeminence.
   • The voice of them that shout for mastery.

   • Every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things.

   • 1610, Ben Jonson, The Alchemist

     O, but to ha' gulled him / Had been a mastery.

3. (obsolete) Contest for superiority.

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4. (obsolete) A masterly operation; a feat.

   • I wol doon a maistrie 'er I go.

5. (obsolete) The philosopher's stone.
6. The act or process of mastering; the state of having mastered; expertise.
   • 1663, John Tillotson, The Wisdom of being Religious

     He […] could attain to a mastery in all languages.

   • The learning and mastery of a tongue, being unpleasant in itself, should not be cumbered with other difficulties.

Related terms

• master

Translations

Anagrams

• streamy

English

Etymology

lever +? -age

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l?v(?)??d?/, /?li?v(?)??d?/

Noun

leverage (usually uncountable, plural leverages)

1. A force compounded by means of a lever rotating around a pivot; see torque.
2. By extension, any influence which is compounded or used to gain an advantage.
3. (finance) The use of borrowed funds with a contractually determined return to increase the ability of a business 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.
4. (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.

Synonyms

• (force compounded by a lever): mechanical advantage
• (use of borrowed fund): gearing
• (ability to earn high returns from high capacity utilization): operating leverage

Translations

Verb

leverage (third-person singular simple present leverages, present participle leveraging, simple past and past participle leveraged)

1. (transitive, chiefly US, slang, business) To use; to exploit; to manipulate in order to take full advantage (of something).

Synonyms

• (take full advantage of): exploit, use

Derived terms

• leveraged buyout

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