1. To use something of value to achieve a desired result: The manufacturer of various hand tools tried to leverage his company's sales in other countries.
2. To apply a force to an object when something; such as, a metal bar is used: Max was leveraging more weight to pry the rock out of the hole.

Primarily a U.S. term, referring to a business arrangement in which someone buys a commercial organization by borrowing money based on the value of the company which is being purchased: One enterprise was trying to arrange for a leveraged buyout of a competing corporation.