I. le ‧ ver ‧ age 1 /ˈliːv ə rɪdʒ $ ˈle-, ˈliː-/ BrE AmE noun [uncountable]
1 . influence that you can use to make people do what you want:
diplomatic leverage by the US
2 . the action, power, or use of a lever
II. leverage 2 BrE AmE verb [transitive] American English technical
1 . to make money available to someone in order to ↑ invest or to buy something such as a company:
the use of public funds to leverage private investment
2 . to spread or use ↑ resource s (=money, skills, buildings etc that an organization has available) , ideas etc again in several different ways or in different parts of a company, system etc
leverage something across something
Reusable software is leveraged across many applications.