{"id":5,"date":"2006-08-29T06:28:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-29T13:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tungsai.com\/blog\/?p=5"},"modified":"2006-08-29T06:28:00","modified_gmt":"2006-08-29T13:28:00","slug":"use-of-the-word-leverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tungsai.com\/blog\/?p=5","title":{"rendered":"Use of the word &#8220;Leverage&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK I just gotta spout off about how I hate the use of the word &#8220;Leverage&#8221; by businesspeople to describe how one thing &#8220;Leverages&#8221; another. There is better word in the English language which does NOT make you sound like a buzzword-spouting salesman:<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Use&#8221;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yes, &#8220;Leverage&#8221; means &#8220;Use&#8221;. pure and simple. When a businessperson uses the word &#8220;Leverage&#8221;, they are trying to sound Smart and Modern. I find this habit to be highly annoying. You will never, ever catch me using the word &#8220;Leverage&#8221; in that capacity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK I just gotta spout off about how I hate the use of the word &#8220;Leverage&#8221; by businesspeople to describe how one thing &#8220;Leverages&#8221; another. There is better word in the English language which does NOT make you sound like a buzzword-spouting salesman: &#8220;Use&#8221;. Yes, &#8220;Leverage&#8221; means &#8220;Use&#8221;. pure and simple. When a businessperson uses&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tungsai.com\/blog\/?p=5\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Use of the word &#8220;Leverage&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tungsai.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tungsai.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tungsai.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tungsai.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tungsai.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tungsai.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tungsai.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tungsai.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tungsai.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}