Definitions
Wiktionary
- v. present participle of leverage.
WordNet 3.0
- n. investing with borrowed money as a way to amplify potential gains (at the risk of greater losses)
Examples
“Avoiding the word "leveraging," he said work is under way to scale up the fund's capacity without requiring each country to chip in more.”
“Instead of just using e-mail and instant messaging, companies will begin leveraging social networking-like capabilities to collaborate with their colleagues.”
“Finally, as the rare earths contretemps has made abundantly clear, we must acknowledge with great urgency that China is growing more confident in leveraging its economic power through its growing military might, in order to advance its broad strategic interests and regional expansion objectives.”
“The housing office, the resolution says, has “a unique focus on housing finance and housing policy and is a national leader in leveraging local dollars to yield housing for seniors, disabled people, the very poor, working poor, and people transitioning out of chronic homelessness.””
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“They have led the way in leveraging the information they gather; information that is submitted for free from its users, of course.”
“If Hollywood can succeed in leveraging new media channels toward that goal, ancillary revenue streams — whether through conventional or high-definition DVDs, download or streaming services — will fall into place.”
“Evidence of their success in leveraging the broad appeal of casual games is starting to filter through, notably in the following blog posts.”
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“Financial-aid leveraging is the enrollment manager's secret weapon.”
“We believe in leveraging our capabilities in the following ways to assist your company's growth in the Chinese market:”
“Tonight, we've got two giants in the tech world meeting face-to-face, a shack with a radio in the name leveraging the possibilities of a sale, a hotel that's got some wheels, and finally a computer that's got a graphics card in it that may make your heart skip a beat.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘leveraging’.
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EU Buzz - ALL words and expressions
A combined list of
1. EU Buzz - single words
2. EU Buzz - collocations
3. EU Buzz - the 100 most active
collocation constituentsabsorption capacity, absorption rate, acceding country, accession candidate, accession countries, accession country, accession criteria, accession cycle, accession negotia..., accession partner..., accession priorities, accession treaty and 2650 more...
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EU Buzz - single words (1+2+3)
1. Strictly EU terms with special European meaning used only in the EU
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2. Keywords central to the understanding of the EU (people working for the EU are usually able to give thematic...acceleration, action, additionality, administrator, agenda, agricultural, agri-environmental, agriflation, agri-food, applicant, approach, assent and 1325 more...
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Web 2.0 Buzzword Bingo
A list useful to anyone bored in technical meetings.
ontology, interface, dataset, leveraging, pathway, embrace, workflow, matrix, arrangement, reproducibility, ownership, ugc and 1 more...
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Probe~ation
An obnoxious and ridiculous madlib list where verbish '-ing' words fill in the blank wherein the blank is a call for a beating.
For example:
"You're ________in' for a brus...searching, looking, hunting, seeking, questing, exploring, asking, inquiring, snooping, poking, probing, scouting and 262 more...
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Alphabet Soup (?): Round 1
Congratulations to uselessness who, in no uncertain terms, sent this moderator back to school.
vile, lively, livery, live, liver, virile, virgil, villain, vilify, evil, vigilante, ventilation and 45 more...
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weasel words
It may take some time to heal.
business as usual, monetize, unique selling pr..., symphony product, birging, abridged ellipsis, new initiative, moving forward, stakeholder, let's take it off..., make the logo bigger, learnings and 16 more...
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Corporate Buzz Words and Phrases
This is soooo Dilbert.
cube farm, thinking outside ..., blue sky thinking, brain dump, get our ducks in ..., push the envelope, low hanging fruit, offline, stakeholder, action item, basic functionality, world class and 31 more...
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Words I hate
Horrible words, usually tasteless neologisms
Tweets
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bilby "We are leveraging our messaging leadership to ensure a commercially viable transition path to a high volume, robust and innovative IMS messaging architecture."
- acision.com Jul 6, 2008