grease vs leverage

grease

noun
  • bribe money. 

  • Any oily or fatty matter. 

  • Shorn but not yet cleansed wool. 

  • Inflammation of a horse's heels, also known as scratches or pastern dermatitis. 

  • Animal fat in a melted or soft state. 

verb
  • To kill, murder. 

  • To cause to go easily; to facilitate. 

  • To affect (a horse) with grease, the disease. 

  • To perform a landing extraordinarily smoothly. 

  • To put grease or fat on something, especially in order to lubricate. 

  • To bribe. 

leverage

noun
  • The use of borrowed funds with a contractually determined return to increase the ability to invest and earn an expected higher return, but usually at high risk. 

  • The debt-to-equity ratio. 

  • The ability to earn very high returns when operating at high-capacity utilization of a facility. 

  • A force compounded by means of a lever rotating around a pivot; see torque. 

  • Any influence which is compounded or used to gain an advantage. 

verb
  • To use; to exploit; to manipulate in order to take full advantage (of something). 

How often have the words grease and leverage occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )