Importance and Leverage

Importance

Importance noun - The quality or state of being important.

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Leverage and importance are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Leverage" instead a noun "Importance".

Leverage noun - The power to direct the thinking or behavior of others usually indirectly.

Usage example: lacking much of the leverage it once had, the union is now being forced to make some humiliating concessions

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Importance and leverage are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Importance" instead a noun "Leverage".

Nearby Words: lever, levered, leveraged, leveraging

good	good importance	good leverage
low	low importance	low leverage
actual	actual importance	actual leverage
real	real importance	real leverage
Other adjectives: little, social, new, political, less, significant, greater, tactical.

Alternatively, it could be to punish a minion for asking for a raise, especially when done right before the critical mission, with the implication that the minion is aware of their own importance and intends to use that as leverage.

Source: You Have Outlived Your Usefulness
On Leverage, while Sophie, Hardison and Nate are more likely to show up people of importance, Parker and Eliot generally fly under the radar by posing as irrelevant workers.

Source: Beneath Notice

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