I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
leveraged buyout
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
political
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This gave them potential political leverage were their sectional interests to be threatened.
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And for better or worse, the new interactivity brings enormous political leverage to ordinary citizens at relatively little cost.
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As a general rule, the archbishop had sufficient political leverage to ensure success for his own monks in these disputes.
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Meanwhile, organized labor and the thousands of new patronage jobs in the federal bureaucracy gave the president powerful political leverage .
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Everything is in flux with no constant points from which political leverage can be gained.
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Abused women can gain new confidence when they realize they have political leverage against their abusive spouses.
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Kerrey and the commission, however, had little political leverage and were easily ignored by both Democrats and Republicans.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Turkey has promised not to use its control of the rivers for political leverage .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Kerrey and the commission, however, had little political leverage and were easily ignored by both Democrats and Republicans.
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Nader is relishing the leverage and the limelight.
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The attraction of options and futures, our specialty item, was that they offered both liquidity and fantastic leverage .
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The consequent leverage is the most distinctive feature of our financial era.
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The national brewers' leverage has been intensified as a result of the rise of lager.
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Yet the report looks to the institutional investors to exercise the leverage necessary to persuade companies to comply with the code.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Development programs often use public funds to leverage private investment.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At the same time, their capacity to leverage private capital in support of these developments has varied considerably.
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Emap Partenaires was established to develop ancillary revenues leveraging off our market leading positions.
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He then began a forty-year process of leveraging his holdings to acquire additional media resources in other parts of the world.
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The agreement promises to leverage Kalpana's strengths in Ethernet switching technology to boost Sparcserver network performance and availability.
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These and other economic development proposals have emphasized targeting and leveraging to get maximum use of the federal dollars.