Leverage (disambiguation)
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Leverage may refer to one of the following.
- Leverage in physics, a factor by which lever multiplies a force.
- Leverage (finance) in finance, using given resources in such a way that the potential positive or negative outcome is magnified.
- A leveraged buyout, in which someone gains control of company's equity through the use of debt.
- Leverage (dance), a type of dance connection.
- Buyer leverage, the relative bargaining power of buyer and seller in a transaction.
- Leverage in statistics is a concept related to the Mahalanobis distance and is used to measure the importance of a sample in a regression model based on its similarity to the rest of the population.
- Leverage (negotiation) in negotiation, a measure of which side, at any given moment, has the most to lose from a failure to agree.
- Leverage (band), a hard rock band from Finland.