LEVERAGING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does leveraging mean? 

• LEVERAGING (noun)
  The noun LEVERAGING has 1 sense:

1. investing with borrowed money as a way to amplify potential gains (at the risk of greater losses)

  Familiarity information: LEVERAGING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LEVERAGING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Investing with borrowed money as a way to amplify potential gains (at the risk of greater losses)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

leverage; leveraging

Hypernyms ("leveraging" is a kind of...):

investing; investment (the act of investing; laying out money or capital in an enterprise with the expectation of profit)

 Context examples 

Now researchers at Georgia Tech and their collaborators are investigating the shape with an eye toward leveraging its structural properties, hoping to find ways to harness its bistability to build multifunctional devices or metamaterials.

(Saddle-shaped origami enables new microelectronic applications, National Science Foundation)