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Leverage can be a verb or a noun.
leverage used as a verb:
- To use; to exploit; to take full advantage (of something).
"They plan to leverage the publicity into a good distribution agreement."
Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →
leverage used as a noun:
- A force compounded by means of a lever rotating around a pivot; see torque.
"A crowbar uses leverage to pry nails out of wood." - By extension, any influence which is compounded or used to gain an advantage.
"Try using competitors’ prices for leverage in the negotiation." - The use of borrowed funds with a contractually determined return to increase the ability of a business to invest and earn an expected higher return, but usually at high risk.
"Leverage is great until something goes wrong with your investments and you still have to pay your debts." - The ability to earn very high returns when operating at high capacity utilization of a facility.
"Their variable-cost-reducing investments have dramatically increased their leverage."
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
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What type of word is leverage?
- Verb usage: They plan to leverage the publicity into a good distribution agreement.
- Verb usage: They plan to leverage off the publicity to get a good distribution agreement.
- Noun usage: A crowbar uses leverage to pry nails out of wood.
- Noun usage: Try using competitors’ prices for leverage in the negotiation.
- Noun usage: Leverage is great until something goes wrong with your investments and you still have to pay your debts.
- Noun usage: Their variable-cost-reducing investments have dramatically increased their leverage.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of leverage are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of leverage, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).
