Leverage is valid Scrabble Word

Is leverage a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is leverage valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

8 letters word
12 points in Scrabble
15 points in WWF

Definitions for LEVERAGE in dictionary:

VERB:

to provide with a type of economic advantage
use borrowed capital for (an investment), expecting the profits made to be greater than the interest payable
use (something) to maximum advantage
supplement with leverage
provide with leverage
borrow capital required

NOUN:

the mechanical power gained by the use of a lever
the exertion of force by means of a lever
mechanical advantage gained by leverage
the power to influence a person or situation

the use of credit or borrowed capital to increase the earning potential of shares.
action or power of a lever
The action of a lever; mechanical advantage gained by the lever.
the mechanical advantage gained by being in a position to use a lever
strategic advantage; power to act effectively
investing with borrowed money as a way to amplify potential gains (at the risk of greater losses)
the ratio of a company's loan capital (debt) to the value of its ordinary shares (equity); gearing.

Words related to LEVERAGE

leveraged14 leverages13 leveraging15

Words that contain LEVERAGE

leveraged14 leverages13 deleverage15 deleveraged17 deleverages16 overleveraged21 underleveraged20

How to use LEVERAGE in a sentence

He saw in education the powerful leverage which would place them in position to enjoy the newly won rights of man.
He hopped excitedly from his desk into the office of Eric Leverage, the chief of police.
Before he finished speaking, Leverage was slipping into his enormous overcoat.
Leverage inspected the young man closely, made note of his license number and the number of his taxi-cab.
The men entered the taxi, and Leverage flashed a pocket-torch in the face of the dead man.
Leverage kept his light trained on it as Carroll dug swiftly through the contents.
Leverage and the taxi-driver were both shivering as if with the ague.
He reached headquarters and closeted himself with Leverage.
Carroll looked at Leverage and Leverage looked at Carroll.
Leverage closed the door gently and gazed at the man upon whom they had called.

And this modest demeanor was having its effect on William Barker, just as Carroll had known it would have, and as Leverage had hoped.
He knew that Leverage disapproved, but he also knew that Leverage was sportsman enough to let him handle the case in his own way.
He found Leverage in his office and settled at once to a discussion of developments.
But when he would have spoken Leverage cut him off.
And Good Lord! Leverage, how that girl can talk! She holds all records for conversational distance and speed.
In the midst of the revelry he gave thought to Eric Leverage and chuckled.
Leverage listened with rapt attention to the report of his friend.
He recognized their double leverage, for if they succeeded in felling even one tree McLean became liable for his wager.
The intense concern felt by members in the choice of the site of the national capital supplied him with the leverage which he brought to bear on the situation.
He is not only unable to escape, but he is unable to strike, for he cannot strike unless coiled so as to give himself support and leverage.
We cannot lift our fallen brother without the leverage of the cross.
These sails were useful for turning a vessel, because their projection before the centre gave them great leverage.
Then, with this leverage, he whirled Sanderson high in the air above his head and threw him with all his force down upon the hearth.
In so far as Lone Moose was concerned he accomplished nothing because, like Archimedes, he lacked a foothold from which to apply his leverage.
She could reach the trap easily, with plenty of leverage to spare.
The only way to give leverage to the pad is to tighten up the belt and the leg-straps.
Of course this gave her a great advantage in the leverage.
The helm was very long, which gives the advantage of a long arm of leverage, but the disadvantage of a small arc of effort.
The increased weight requires simply more brake leverage.
And nothing would please me more than to see you rise to authority by the leverage of my wealth.

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