0 present participle of leverage
1 to use something that you already have in order to achieve something new or better:
2 to use borrowed money to buy an investment or company:
We do, however, advocate leveraging their work by building upon existing taxonomies and transitioning to ontologies.
Sections 3 and 4 describe strategies for leveraging product platforms across different market segments and metrics for assessing product platforms, respectively.
Combinative capability or the leveraging of knowledge assets can occur in a variety of forms with varying degrees of complexity.
State and hospital officials refused to release other bodies from the morgue for burial until the uproar quieted, leveraging the dead as blackmail.
Integrating assistance into corresponding sectors and leveraging corporate responsibility, instead of lumping redistribution policies together into an easily attacked welfare state might increase political survivability.
Techniques for identifying platform leveraging strategies within a product family are reviewed along with metrics for assessing the effectiveness of product platforms and product families.
Even the threat of an employers' liability claim could often be useful in leveraging a greater settlement under the workmen's compensation act.
Desertification was (and still is in some quarters) more about leveraging money and securing reputations, than it ever was about a biophysical or social process.