Leverage and Work

Leverage

Leverage verb - To take unfair advantage of.

Usage example: a reality show contestant who's trying to leverage her 15 minutes of fame

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Work and leverage are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Work" instead a verb "Leverage".

Nearby Words: lever, levered, leveraged, leveraging

Work verb - To take unfair advantage of.

Usage example: a woman not afraid to work her sex appeal in order to get ahead

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Leverage and work are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Leverage" instead a verb "Work".

Nearby Words: works, working, worked, workable, worker

good	good leverage	good work
best	best leverage	best work
legal	legal leverage	legal work
popular	popular leverage	popular work
Other adjectives: actual, entire, real, little, necessary, new, less, further, extra, previous.

Comments: Leverage Consulting and Associates outsource a little work to a certain forger.

Source: Fanfic Recs / Leverage
I Have Your Wife: The second half of the game revolves around Fetch being coerced into doing work for Shane after he captures Brent and uses him as leverage.

Source: Video Game / inFAMOUS: First Light
And it turns out that Captain Fryer used a full police investigation of Five-0's behavior as leverage to get Kono to work for him.

Source: Series / Hawaii Five-0

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Work and Leverage. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/leverage/work

Leverage & Work. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/leverage/work>.

Work or Leverage. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/leverage/work.

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