Leverage vs. Power

Difference Between Leverage and Power

Leveragenoun

A force compounded by means of a lever rotating around a pivot; see torque.

A crowbar uses leverage to pry nails out of wood.

Powernoun

(social) Ability to coerce, influence or control.

Leveragenoun

By extension, any influence which is compounded or used to gain an advantage.

Try using competitors’ prices for leverage in the negotiation.

Powernoun

(countable) Ability to affect or influence.

Leveragenoun

(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.

Powernoun

Control or coercion, particularly legal or political (jurisdiction).

Leveragenoun

(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.

Powernoun

(metonymy) (chiefly in the plural) The people in charge of legal or political power, the government.

Leverageverb

To use; to exploit; to manipulate in order to take full advantage (of something).

They plan to leverage the publicity into a good distribution agreement.They plan to leverage off the publicity to get a good distribution agreement.

Powernoun

(metonymy) An influential nation, company, or other such body.

Leveragenoun

the mechanical advantage gained by being in a position to use a lever

Powernoun

Effectiveness.

Leveragenoun

strategic advantage; power to act effectively;

relatively small groups can sometimes exert immense political leverage

Powernoun

Physical force or strength.

He needed a lot of power to hit the ball out of the stadium.

Leveragenoun

investing with borrowed money as a way to amplify potential gains (at the risk of greater losses)

Powernoun

Electricity or a supply of electricity.

After the pylons collapsed, this town was without power for a few days.

Leverageverb

supplement with leverage;

leverage the money that is already available

Powernoun

A measure of the rate of doing work or transferring energy.

Leverageverb

provide with leverage;

We need to leverage this company

Powernoun

The strength by which a lens or mirror magnifies an optical image.

We need a microscope with higher power.

Powernoun

Any of the elementary forms or parts of machines: three primary (the lever, inclined plane, and pulley) and three secondary (the wheel-and-axle, wedge, and screw).

the mechanical powers

Powernoun

(mathematics)

Powernoun

A product of equal factors (and generalizations of this notion): $x^n$ , read as " $x$ to the power of $n$ " or the like, is called a power and denotes the product $x \times x \times \cdots \times x$ , where $x$ appears $n$ times in the product; $x$ is called the base and $n$ the exponent.