[Gllug] levering/Leveraging - Use of English

[Alain Williams]

On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 09:13:35AM +0000, Tethys wrote:
> 
> Doug Winter writes:
> 
> >Their leveraging of Windows into the office software market [...]
> 
> The word for which you're looking is "levering". "Leveraging"
> only exists in managementspeak. "Lever" is both a verb and a
> noun. "Leverage" is only a noun (for now, at least).
> 
> Sorry, this is one of my pet peeves.

Ahah - someone else who got & enjoyed a copy of 'eats, shoots & leaves' a year ago :-)

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