LEVERAGE in a Sentence

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 Meanings and Examples of LEVERAGE
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leverage
 n.  any influence which is compounded or used to gain an advantage; a force compounded by means of a lever rotating around a pivot
 n.  the act of using borrowed money to buy an investment or a company
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1  We'll have to use leverage to move this huge rock.
2  Meanwhile, organized labor and the thousands of new patronage jobs in the federal bureaucracy gave the president powerful political leverage.
3  He tried to push the door open, but he didn't have sufficient leverage.
4  This was on their backburner and not likely to get fixed anytime soon, and we were hoping to get some additional leverage to make them bump up the priority on their end.
5  A disposable actor doesn't really have the leverage to demand a big pay hike.