leverage

1. 1.

   supplement with leverage

   “leverage the money that is already available”

   Broadersupplement
2. 2.

   provide with leverage

   “We need to leverage this company”

   Broadersupply

Other forms of leverage

plural

leverages·

past tense

leveraged·

present participle

leveraging·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about leverage

What does leverage mean?

leverage means "the mechanical advantage gained by being in a position to use a lever". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in leverage?

leverage has 3 syllables: lev-e-rage. The stress falls on "lev". In IPA it is /ˈlɛvɚɪdʒ/.

What is another word for leverage?

Close synonyms include purchase, leveraging. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is leverage a common word?

leverage is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.