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"word": "leveraged buyout"
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"text": "They plan to leverage the publicity into a good distribution agreement.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "They plan to leverage off the publicity to get a good distribution agreement.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "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:",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "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:",
"text": "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.",
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],
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"business",
"business"
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"use",
"use"
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[
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"word": "force multiplier"
}
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"word": "exploit"
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"sense": "take full advantage of",
"word": "use"
}
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"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
"word": "aprofitar"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
"word": "avantaĝutiligi"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
"word": "uzi levilan efikon"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
"word": "profiter (de quelque chose)"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
"word": "exploiter"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
"word": "tirer parti (de quelque chose)"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
"word": "aproveitar"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
"word": "aushebeln"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
"word": "hebeln"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
"word": "wirksam einsetzen"
},
{
"code": "de",
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"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
"word": "voll zunutze machen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
"word": "ausnutzen"
},
{
"code": "el",
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"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
"word": "αξιοποιώ"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
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"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
"word": "εκμεταλλεύομαι"
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"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
"word": "מינף"
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"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
"word": "kihasznál"
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{
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"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
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{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
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{
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{
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"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
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{
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{
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"word": "elér"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
"word": "befolyásol"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
"word": "fare leva su"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
"word": "approfittare di"
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{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
"word": "avvantaggiarsi di"
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{
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"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
"word": "dra fordel av"
},
{
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
"word": "profittere på"
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{
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"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
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"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
"tags": [
"perfective"
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{
"code": "pt",
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"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
"word": "aproveitar"
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"code": "ru",
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"word": "максимально использовать"
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"lang": "Russian",
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"tags": [
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"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
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},
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"imperfective"
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{
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"Cyrillic"
],
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},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
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"word": "profitírati"
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"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
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"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
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{
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"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
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"lang": "Spanish",
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{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
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"ref": "2021 July 23, Eric Lipton, Ephrat Livni, “‘I Feel Conflicted’: Crypto’s Offshore Trading Moguls Talk Shop”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:",
"text": "Both exchanges offer crypto derivatives, which are bets on future fluctuations in cryptocurrency prices. They also offer extreme leverage — up to 125 times on Binance. That means a $1,000 down payment can be turned into a $125,000 gamble.",
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"feminine"
],
"word": "הנפה"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "influence which is compounded or used to gain an advantage",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "influenza"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "influence which is compounded or used to gain an advantage",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"plural"
],
"word": "naciski"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "ryčág",
"sense": "influence which is compounded or used to gain an advantage",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "рыча́г"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "influence which is compounded or used to gain an advantage",
"word": "forsiranje"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "influence which is compounded or used to gain an advantage",
"word": "uticaj"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "influence which is compounded or used to gain an advantage",
"word": "utjecaj"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "influence which is compounded or used to gain an advantage",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "enchufe"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "influence which is compounded or used to gain an advantage",
"word": "influencia"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "influence which is compounded or used to gain an advantage",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "palanca"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "influence which is compounded or used to gain an advantage",
"word": "inflytande"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "influence which is compounded or used to gain an advantage",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "hävstångseffekt"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "influence which is compounded or used to gain an advantage",
"word": "koz"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "use of borrowed funds",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "palanquejament"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "use of borrowed funds",
"word": "leverage"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "use of borrowed funds",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "hefboomfonds"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "use of borrowed funds",
"word": "levil-efika prunto"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "use of borrowed funds",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "effet de levier"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "use of borrowed funds",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Fremdfinanzierungsgrad"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "use of borrowed funds",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Fremdkapitalaufnahme"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "use of borrowed funds",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Verschuldungsgrad"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "use of borrowed funds",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Hebelwirkung"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "móchlefsi",
"sense": "use of borrowed funds",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "μόχλευση"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "rebarejji",
"sense": "use of borrowed funds",
"word": "レバレッジ"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "reba",
"sense": "use of borrowed funds",
"word": "レバ"
},
{
"code": "kk",
"lang": "Kazakh",
"roman": "leveraj",
"sense": "use of borrowed funds",
"word": "левераж"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "use of borrowed funds",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "dźwignia finansowa"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "use of borrowed funds",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "lewarowanie"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "use of borrowed funds",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "alavancagem"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "use of borrowed funds",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "apalancamiento"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "use of borrowed funds",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "hävstång"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "use of borrowed funds",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "hävstångseffekt"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "ability to earn very high returns",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "rendiment"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "ability to earn very high returns",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Hebelwirkung"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "ability to earn very high returns",
"word": "Hebel"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "ability to earn very high returns",
"tags": [
"singular"
],
"word": "tőkeáttétel"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "ability to earn very high returns",
"word": "manivela"
}
],
"word": "leverage"
}
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"Terms with Finnish translations",
"Terms with French translations",
"Terms with Galician translations",
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"Terms with Hebrew translations",
"Terms with Hungarian translations",
"Terms with Irish translations",
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"Terms with Japanese translations",
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],
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{
"word": "leveraged buyout"
}
],
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"1": "en",
"2": "lever",
"3": "age"
},
"expansion": "lever + -age",
"name": "suffix"
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],
"etymology_text": "From lever + -age.",
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{
"form": "leverages",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "leveraging",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "leveraged",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "leveraged",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
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}
],
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"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"related": [
{
"word": "force multiplier"
}
],
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{
"categories": [
"American English",
"English slang",
"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with usage examples",
"English transitive verbs",
"en:Business"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "They plan to leverage the publicity into a good distribution agreement.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "They plan to leverage off the publicity to get a good distribution agreement.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "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:",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "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:",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To use; to exploit; to manipulate in order to take full advantage (of something)."
],
"links": [
[
"business",
"business"
],
[
"use",
"use"
],
[
"manipulate",
"manipulate"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive, chiefly US, slang, business) To use; to exploit; to manipulate in order to take full advantage (of something)."
],
"tags": [
"US",
"slang",
"transitive"
],
"topics": [
"business"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈlɛv(ə)ɹɪd͡ʒ/"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈliːv(ə)ɹɪd͡ʒ/"
},
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"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/49/En-us-leverage.ogg"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"sense": "take full advantage of",
"word": "exploit"
},
{
"sense": "take full advantage of",
"word": "use"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
"word": "aprofitar"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
"word": "avantaĝutiligi"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
"word": "uzi levilan efikon"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
"word": "profiter (de quelque chose)"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
"word": "exploiter"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
"word": "tirer parti (de quelque chose)"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
"word": "aproveitar"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
"word": "aushebeln"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
"word": "hebeln"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
"word": "wirksam einsetzen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
"word": "voll zunutze machen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
"word": "ausnutzen"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "axiopoió",
"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
"word": "αξιοποιώ"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "ekmetallévomai",
"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
"word": "εκμεταλλεύομαι"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "minéf",
"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
"word": "מינף"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
"word": "kihasznál"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
"word": "kiaknáz"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
"word": "hasznosít"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
"word": "hasznot húz"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
"word": "profitál"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
"word": "bevet"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"english": "exerting influence",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
"word": "rávesz"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
"word": "elér"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
"word": "befolyásol"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
"word": "fare leva su"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
"word": "approfittare di"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
"word": "avvantaggiarsi di"
},
{
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
"word": "dra fordel av"
},
{
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
"word": "profittere på"
},
{
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
"word": "utnytte"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "wykorzystywać"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "wykorzystać"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
"word": "aproveitar"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "maksimalʹno ispolʹzovatʹ",
"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
"word": "максимально использовать"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "primenjatʹ",
"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "применять"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "ulučšatʹ",
"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "улучшать"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "optimizirovatʹ",
"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "оптимизировать"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "vygodno ispolʹzovatʹ",
"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
"word": "выгодно использовать"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic"
],
"word": "профити́рати"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
"tags": [
"Latin"
],
"word": "profitírati"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
"word": "použiť pákový efekt"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
"word": "beneficiarse"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
"word": "aprovecharse de"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
"word": "apalancar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
"word": "palanquear"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
"word": "(birini) kullanmak"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "use, exploit, take full advantage of",
"word": "nüfuz etmek"
}
],
"word": "leverage"
}
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