Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to leverage
Participle: leveraged
Gerund: leveraging
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | leverage |
| you | leverage |
| he;she;it | leverages |
| we | leverage |
| you | leverage |
| they | leverage |
Perfect
| I | have leveraged |
| you | have leveraged |
| he;she;it | has leveraged |
| we | have leveraged |
| you | have leveraged |
| they | have leveraged |
Past
| I | leveraged |
| you | leveraged |
| he;she;it | leveraged |
| we | leveraged |
| you | leveraged |
| they | leveraged |
Pluperfect
| I | had leveraged |
| you | had leveraged |
| he;she;it | had leveraged |
| we | had leveraged |
| you | had leveraged |
| they | had leveraged |
Future
| I | will leverage |
| you | will leverage |
| he;she;it | will leverage |
| we | will leverage |
| you | will leverage |
| they | will leverage |
Future Perfect
| I | will have leveraged |
| you | will have leveraged |
| he;she;it | will have leveraged |
| we | will have leveraged |
| you | will have leveraged |
| they | will have leveraged |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | leverage |
| you | leverage |
| he;she;it | leverage |
| we | leverage |
| you | leverage |
| they | leverage |
Perfect
| I | have leveraged |
| you | have leveraged |
| he;she;it | have leveraged |
| we | have leveraged |
| you | have leveraged |
| they | have leveraged |
Imperfect
| I | leveraged |
| you | leveraged |
| he;she;it | leveraged |
| we | leveraged |
| you | leveraged |
| they | leveraged |
Pluperfect
| I | had leveraged |
| you | had leveraged |
| he;she;it | had leveraged |
| we | had leveraged |
| you | had leveraged |
| they | had leveraged |
Conditional
Present
| I | would leverage |
| you | would leverage |
| he;she;it | would leverage |
| we | would leverage |
| you | would leverage |
| they | would leverage |
Perfect
| I | would have leveraged |
| you | would have leveraged |
| he;she;it | would have leveraged |
| we | would have leveraged |
| you | would have leveraged |
| they | would have leveraged |
Imperative
| you | leverage |
| we | Let's leverage |
| you | leverage |
Verbs conjugated like 'leverage'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'leverage'
average,
deaverage,
deleverage,
overage,
deaerate,
dejerate,
demerge,
deterge,
diverge,
emerge,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From lever + -age. The verb likely comes from martial arts/judo usage, where one would "use an opponent's leverage (i.e. their weight, height, centre of balance, etc.)" against them in order to defeat them.
Sample Sentences
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They plan to leverage the publicity into a good distribution agreement.
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They plan to leverage off the publicity to get a good distribution agreement.
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EAP research has developed advanced methods for producing corpus-informed vocabulary resources, but these have yet to be fully leveraged to promote disciplinary literacy within the secondary school context. [2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Advancing disciplinary literacy through English for academic purposes: Discipline-specific wordlists, collocations and word families for eight secondary subjects”, in Journal of English for Academic Purposes, volume 35, →DOI, page 105:]
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Catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide (AIR) today announced that Sompo International, a global specialty provider of property and casualty insurance and reinsurance, is leveraging AIR's casualty analytics platform, Arium, to better understand and quantify its liability and loss potential across multiple commercial liability lines of business. [2019 June 19, “Sompo International to Leverage AIR's Innovative Casualty Analytics Solution for Multi-Line Risk Analysis”, in CNN Money, archived from the original on 14 May 2025:]
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Thomas H. Lee, a private equity financier who pioneered the use of leveraged buyouts that helped to reshape corporate America, has died, according to a notice from his former firm that still bears his name. [2023 February 24, Chris Isidore, “Thomas H. Lee, pioneer of leveraged buyouts, is dead at 78”, in CNN:]
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Russian forces continue to prioritize their offensive push towards Pokrovsk, and the operational significance of seizing the city will likely in part depend on the Russian military's ability to leverage the city in wider operational maneuver in Donetsk Oblast. [2024 October 3, Riley Bailey, Angelica Evans, Grace Mappes, Davit Gasparyan, Nate Trotter, Frederick W. Kagan, “Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, October 3, 2024”, in Ukraine Project, Institute for the Study of War:]