English-Italian translations for leverage

• approfittare
• beneficiare
• influenza
  Infine, l'UE ha una certa influenza sulla Russia. Finally, the EU does have leverage over Russia.
  In sesto luogo, vi sono altre aree nelle quali abbiamo meno influenza. Sixthly, there are other areas in which we have less leverage.
  Mi pare che è stato in quel momento che la Commissione ha perso tutto il suo potere di esercitare influenza. It seems to me that this was the point when the Commission lost all leverage.
• leva
  Il terzo punto riguarda l'indice di leva finanziaria. The third point concerns the leverage ratio.
  Perché ciò non dovrebbe far da leva anche per il lavoro in Asia? Why can it not used to give us leverage in Asia?
  Si è inoltre convenuta una migrazione verso un'interpretazione completa e vincolante dell'indice di leva finanziaria. Furthermore, it has been agreed that there will be a migration towards a full and binding leverage ratio.
• leveraggio
• manipolare
• potenza
• pressione
  Di conseguenza l'Unione europea dispone di un ottimo strumento per far pressione sul Presidente Ali Abdullah Saleh. Therefore, we have considerable leverage here in the EU over President Ali Abdullah Saleh.
  Non dobbiamo dimenticare che c'è già una pressione in questo senso allo stato attuale dei negoziati. We should not forget that there is already leverage in this direction at the current stage of negotiations.
  In considerazione di ciò, ci chiediamo se si possa essere condurre sulla retta via la Turchia con semplici strumenti di pressione economica. The question for us therefore is whether or not Turkey can now be turned in the right direction with economic leverage.

Definition of leverage

• A force compounded by means of a lever rotating around a pivot; see torque
• By extension, any influence which is compounded or used to gain an advantage
• 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
• The ability to earn very high returns when operating at high capacity utilization of a facility
• To use; to exploit; to manipulate in order to take full advantage (of something

Examples

• A crowbar uses leverage to pry nails out of wood
• Try using competitors’ prices for leverage in the negotiation
• Leverage is great until something goes wrong with your investments and you still have to pay your debts.
• Their variable-cost-reducing investments have dramatically increased their leverage.
• They plan to leverage the publicity into a good distribution agreement
• They plan to leverage off the publicity to get a good distribution agreement

Related words

• deleverage
• leverage lease
• leveraged buyout
• leveraged management buyout
• operativa leverage
• highly leveraged institution