" leverage "

 [ "leverage" ]

1: This is an object or an idea that gives the user an advantage in dealmaking

  * e.g.,  ... bramwell used his leverage to avoid death 

 [ "leverage" ]

1: A meaningless buzzword forged from the furnaces of Hell by Satan's wordsmiths. It used to mean 'use efficiently' or 'share', but today it is inserted into every other sentence in the IT business world to make typical ideas and sentences sound grander.

  * e.g.,  ... Let's be proactive in saving our clients money by leveraging our assets over all of our outsourcing accounts. 

 [ "leverage" ]

1: A buzzword used by management and those who aspire to become management. It used to describe an advantage gained by using a tool. Later it became a term used to describe corporate debt. For example, a leveraged buy-out is one where the buyer has to borrow money in order to buy the other company.

  * e.g.,  ... Steve: Can we take this off-line, I'm hungry. I'm going to leverage a sandwich. 

 [ "leverage" ]

2: After much mis-use, the word leverage no-longer describes anything or have any meaning to anyone who has ever worked in an office.

  * e.g.,  ... Paula: Great idea, I could also leverage some food. 

 [ "leverage" ]

3: in business circles this word is most commonly used in place of the word 'use'.

  * e.g.,  ... Steve: Come on then, we can leverage my car to get to the sandwich leverager. 

 [ "leverage" ]

1: to use external intangible politics for your avantage.

  * e.g.,  ... he got the deal because he leveraged his existing relationship with the factory. 

 [ "leverage" ]

1: When you have an erection in the morning and you go to piss your heals come off the ground as you push down.

  * e.g.,  ... Fuck, the leverage I got this morning while trying to pee would make Chris Angel jealous. 

 [ "leverage" ]

1: A parenting tactic that makes them financially control their children in which they'll decide what their children's decisions according to what's financially beneficial to them.

  * e.g.,  ... I finally moved out of my parent's house and escaped their leverage now I can do whatever the fuck I want. 

 [ "Leverager" ]

1: One who leverages. One who steps up, is proactive, thinks outside of the box, is on the fast track, knows the team's core competences, develops synergy, creates a win-win scenario by empowering the client base, and shifts paradigms by living the mission statement.

  * e.g.,  ... It was more entertaining when Trump had actual leveragers on his show instead of these fauxlebrities. 

 [ "Leverager" ]

2: A person who not only speaks in corporate buzzwords, but also thinks in them, and uses them as substitutes for actual intelligence and creativity. The people who give capitalism a bad name.

  * e.g.,  ... Leverager: "Aahh, now, are you going to go ahead and have those TPS reports for us this afternoon?" 

 [ "leveraged" ]

1: To be totalled battered on alcohol

  * e.g.,  ... Mate, you were leveraged last night. 

 [ "no leverage" ]

1: An ineffectual phrase/word said in attempt to either insult or ward off a person; of no effect on the opposer.

  * e.g.,  ... Jerry: “Go away Mark, nobody likes you” 

 [ "white leveraging" ]

1: A term someone uses to attempt to make themselves not look like a piece of shit for blackmailing someone.

  * e.g.,  ... "Why are you blackmailing me?"