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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of leverage.

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Examples

  • This was a first for Calvin Klein as the label leverages the power of social networking and bringing fashion to your mobile appliance, thus making fashion also portable.

    FashionWindows Network Mari Davis 2010

  • This was a first for Calvin Klein as the label leverages the power of social networking and bringing fashion to your mobile appliance, thus making fashion also portable.

    FashionWindows Network Mari Davis 2010

  • The new name leverages the equity we have built in the El Paso brand, and it speaks directly to what our E&P business does so well: finding and producing oil and natural gas.

    unknown title 2011

  • Among the leverages was a $60 million loan taken out against the parking lots surrounding

    National Business News - Local Business News | bizjournals 2010

  • I'm reckoning on giving it a week or two to see what happens, with maybe another wee prod if required -- possibly with a bonus story or something similar only available to donors to see if that * ahem* "leverages" more support.

    Direct Distribution Experiment Hal Duncan 2009

  • When he says things like let's put a moratorium on foreclosures and let's regulate the kind of leverages and reserves that banks and other companies need to have for savings that ends up affecting credit availability and whether people can get loans and reasonable loans.

    CNN Transcript Nov 2, 2008 2008

  • When he says things like let's put a moratorium on foreclosures and let's regulate the kind of leverages and reserves that banks and other companies need to have for savings that ends up affecting credit availability and whether people can get loans and reasonable loans.

    CNN Transcript Nov 1, 2008 2008

  • So I expect the newspaper, the commentators specific to try to each one look at the situation from the point of view, which really reflects the kind of leverages Lebanon is living at the moment.

    CNN Transcript May 25, 2007 2007

  • But I don't know how a teen 'leverages' that into anything meaningful -- college application?

    Original Signal - Transmitting Digg 2010

  • But I don't know how a teen 'leverages' that into anything meaningful -- college application?

    digg.com: Stories / Popular 2010

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