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Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 11:16, Buchan Milne wrote:
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>>some skills, and they could all be leveraged if at least some aspects of
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> Used. USED. Please, please, please, please, please, please, PRETTY
> please can we not succumb to the horrible corporate-speak use of
> "leverage" as a verb?

Sure, if you can provide an equivalent which means something along the
lines of "make a small change to allow the small investment of effort by
a large group of people to result in a large change". "use" doesn't come
nearly close enough to implying that.

Here, the fulcrum would be the use of cvs, the lever would be the number
of people, the force applied to the lever arm would be the individual
efforts.

Maybe I should have used a metaphor instead ...

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