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leveraging

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Crowd funding is a way of leveraging that kind of clout.

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Quick take

investing with borrowed money as a way to amplify potential gains (at the risk of greater losses)

Meaning at a glance

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noun

investing with borrowed money as a way to amplify potential gains (at the risk of greater losses)

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for leveraging.

noun

investing with borrowed money as a way to amplify potential gains (at the risk of greater losses)

See also: leverage

Example sentences

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Crowd funding is a way of leveraging that kind of clout.

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Comcast is just leveraging their monopoly to get out of standard peering practices.

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Amazon is definitely leveraging their expertise and not their physical machines.

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If you don't convert to cash immediately, you are basically leveraging the government's money to invest in Bitcoin speculation.

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They are now out of business, but they did so by leveraging the existence of the development contracts to flip the company to a bigger company that didn't realize it was buying a pig in a poke.

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You have zero mobility as a labor market participant if you own a house, and this significantly reduces your leveraging power when it comes to negotiating salary.

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Both companies created their infrastructure businesses as separate entities by leveraging their datacenter expertise, but they were not 'remainders'.

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I was in NY for vacation during the opening Friday and decided to head into a queue and line up for the 5s, suspecting that it may sell out quickly while also leveraging the pricing difference between Europe and USA.

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Thanks to the more 'difficult' choice of starting a fresh platform rather than leveraging an existing one, Go's whole ecosystem and development experience now share a unifying philosophy, and every aspect of working with Go is suffused with what makes Go great.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use leveraging in a sentence?

Crowd funding is a way of leveraging that kind of clout.

What does leveraging mean?

investing with borrowed money as a way to amplify potential gains (at the risk of greater losses)

What part of speech is leveraging?

leveraging is commonly used as noun.