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Re:Happy New Year HN! by echelon on Wednesday January 01, 2020 @02:42PM (#21930042)
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/leverage

But it is both a noun and a verb.

Do you pick arbitrary dual-use words and wish for half of their uses to be stricken from the lexicon? Or is this one in particular something you dislike?

Re:Happy New Year HN! by istjohn on Wednesday January 01, 2020 @03:46PM (#21930506)
Dictionaries are descriptions of language not prescriptions. Thou doth protest too much, methinks.