different between toehold vs leverage

English

Etymology

From toe +? hold.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?t??h??ld/

Noun

toehold (plural toeholds)

1. (rock climbing) A foothold small enough to support just the toe.
2. (by extension) Any small advantage which allows one to make significant progress; a slight footing or foothold.
   • 1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society 2010, p. 151:

     Were Herat to fall to the Persians, this would give the Russians a crucial and dangerous toe-hold in western Afghanistan.

   • 2009, Alan Travis, The Guardian, 8 Dec 2009:

     One in three "adult-kids" who have not left the parental nest say they are still living at home because they cannot afford to get a toehold on the property ladder by buying or renting.
3. (wrestling) A hold in which the aggressor bends back the opponent's foot.

Translations

See also

• foothold

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

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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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