LEVERAGING | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

Meaning of leveraging in English

(Definition of leveraging from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of leveraging

leveraging

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

We do, however, advocate leveraging their work by building upon existing taxonomies and transitioning to ontologies.
Sections 3 and 4 describe strategies for leveraging product platforms across different market segments and metrics for assessing product platforms, respectively.
Combinative capability or the leveraging of knowledge assets can occur in a variety of forms with varying degrees of complexity.
State and hospital officials refused to release other bodies from the morgue for burial until the uproar quieted, leveraging the dead as blackmail.
Integrating assistance into corresponding sectors and leveraging corporate responsibility, instead of lumping redistribution policies together into an easily attacked welfare state might increase political survivability.
Techniques for identifying platform leveraging strategies within a product family are reviewed along with metrics for assessing the effectiveness of product platforms and product families.
Even the threat of an employers' liability claim could often be useful in leveraging a greater settlement under the workmen's compensation act.
Desertification was (and still is in some quarters) more about leveraging money and securing reputations, than it ever was about a biophysical or social process.
Leveraging the learning power of examples in automated constraint acquisition.
Multiple application of knowledge or technology involves leveraging resources by identifying further deployment for an application of already existing products.
It exploits the economies of scale and scope, but is a more advanced form of leveraging resources.
If factors such as racism are preventing wealthy otavalenos from leveraging their economic power into political power, we need to hear more about how that works.
Automatic verb classification is a means for leveraging expensive hand-coding of such information, but appropriate features must be devised and must be demonstrated to be useful.
With the exception of technical assistance, which is still funded through upfront funding, this means that you will have major leveraging.
Of these, 31 are in progress, and three investments have been made totalling £1.7 million (leveraging in a further £16 million).
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