In a message dated 6/18/03 10:36:33 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
edkeer at YAHOO.COM writes:
> My experience with the business use of "leverage" is
>  that it means "exploit" as in "Let's leverage the key
>  learnings from this project to develop best
>  practices."
In other words, "let's exploit the synergy..."
     - James A. Landau