leverage (ver contexto)

Spanish translation: influencia

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English term or phrase:leverage
Spanish translation:influencia
Entered by: Jaume de Marcos Andreu

20:03 Jan 29, 2013
English to Spanish translations [PRO]
Science - Social Science, Sociology, Ethics, etc.
English term or phrase: leverage (ver contexto)
Gracias de antemano por su ayuda.

What is ***leverage***?

The Guiding Principles explain that appropriate action to prevent or address an adverse human rights impact will depend, among other things on the extent of the company’s leverage in addressing the adverse impact. This is particularly relevant when it comes to involvement in an adverse impact through a business relationship.

They elaborate that “Leverage is considered to exist where the enterprise has the ability to effect change in the wrongful practices of an entity that causes harm”.

The Guiding Principles clearly envisage the use of leverage to be proactive: “If the business enterprise has leverage to prevent or mitigate the adverse impact, it should exercise it, and if it lacks leverage, there may be ways for the enterprise to increase it. Leverage may be increased, for example, by offering capacity-building or other incentives to the related entity, or collaborating with other actors”.
Lida Garcia
Peru
Local time: 11:58
influencia
Explanation:
En este contexto, indica la capacidad de influir en una situación o la capacidad de cambiar las cosas, a menudo en beneficio propio.

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Local time: 17:58
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6 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +6
influencia


Explanation:
En este contexto, indica la capacidad de influir en una situación o la capacidad de cambiar las cosas, a menudo en beneficio propio.

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Note added at 11 minutos (2013-01-29 20:14:49 GMT)
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:) Gracias por tu confirmación.

Example sentence(s):
  • This politician has leverage with the government
Jaume de Marcos Andreu
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Local time: 17:58
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Asker: Gracias, Jaume. Esa es mi opción, y quería ratificarla :)


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  George Rabel: Absolutely. Generally, the word is used in corpspeak as "aprovechar oportunidades," but not in this case.
5 mins
  -> Thank you! I agree, the best translation for this word depends a lot on context.

agree  Ariella Aureli
10 mins
  -> ¡Muchas gracias!

agree  Maru Villanueva
42 mins
  -> ¡Muchas gracias!

agree  SandraV
4 hrs
  -> ¡Gracias, Sandra!

agree  Gretel Peter
16 hrs
  -> ¡Muchas gracias!

agree  Victoria Frazier
6 days
  -> ¡Gracias!
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11 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
determinación


Explanation:
En este caso, parece ser esa la idea.

Mónica Algazi
Uruguay
Local time: 13:58
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Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in category: 137
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