leveraging
Maximizing available advantage
Leveraging is using something you have to gain additional advantage or power.
The word comes from lever—a tool that multiplies force—and carries that sense of amplification into business and strategy.
You leverage assets, connections, expertise, or opportunities: She's leveraging her social media following to launch a clothing line.
In finance, leveraging specifically means using borrowed money to increase potential returns.
Putting to practical use
- employingMaking use of
- exploitingUsing selfishly for benefit
- applyingPutting into use
- deployingArranging for active use
harnessing · wielding · capitalizing · maximizing · implementing · activating · mobilizing · tapping
Boundary or sharpness
- benefitAdvantage or gain
- superiorityHigher rank or quality
- dominanceSuperior influence over others
- vantagePosition of advantage
positioning · opportunity · gain · strength · asset · headstart · preeminence · ascendancy
Informal power or punch
authority · persuasion · lobbying · coercion · manipulation · control · impact · grip
Money owed another
- equityImpartial treatment or ownership value
- capitalWealth used for investment
- borrowingTemporary taking of another's
- collateralSecurity for debt
assets · margin · loan · credit · securities · mortgage · bonds · investment
Combined effect exceeding components
- optimizationMaximizing efficiency or performance
- scalabilityCapacity for growth
- integrationCombining into a whole
- alignmentCorrect relative positioning
efficiency · growth · innovation · execution · adaptation · pivot · framework · methodology
utilizing
Putting to practical use
- employingMaking use of
- exploitingUsing selfishly for benefit
- applyingPutting into use
deploying · harnessing · wielding · capitalizing · maximizing · implementing · activating · mobilizing · tapping · channeling
edge
Boundary or sharpness
- benefitAdvantage or gain
- superiorityHigher rank or quality
- dominanceSuperior influence over others
vantage · positioning · opportunity · gain · strength · asset · headstart · preeminence · ascendancy · privilege
clout
Informal power or punch
power · authority · persuasion · lobbying · coercion · manipulation · control · impact · grip · command
debt
Money owed another
- equityImpartial treatment or ownership value
- capitalWealth used for investment
- borrowingTemporary taking of another's
collateral · assets · margin · loan · credit · securities · mortgage · bonds · investment · funding
synergy
Combined effect exceeding components
- optimizationMaximizing efficiency or performance
- scalabilityCapacity for growth
- integrationCombining into a whole
alignment · efficiency · growth · innovation · execution · adaptation · pivot · framework · methodology · approach
- Corporate Americacorporate ladder, cubicle, cubicles, corner office, office politics
- investingstocks, stock, bonds, investing, investor
- business buzzwordsbrainstorming, breakthrough, design thinking, scaling, pitching
- coercionduress, coercing, compelling, threat, forcing
- power tacticspower play, power grab, strong-arm, strong-arming, strongarm
- opportunismcapitalizing, cashing in, self-serving, maneuvering, positioning
leveragingsquandering
Reckless depletion of resources
wasting · neglecting · underutilizing · frittering away · throwing away
leveragingfumbling
Clumsy, uncoordinated handling
bungling · floundering · drifting · coasting · stagnating
leveragingrelinquishing
Voluntarily giving up possession
surrendering · forfeiting · ceding · yielding · losing ground