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Lestrade
- unknown - Police Inspector in Sherlock Holmes stories.
Leverage
- noun - investing with borrowed money as a way to amplify potential gains (at the risk of greater losses)
- provide with leverage; "We need to leverage this company"
- strategic advantage; power to act effectively; "relatively small groups can sometimes exert immense political leverage"
- supplement with leverage; "leverage the money that is already available"
- the mechanical advantage gained by being in a position to use a lever
Leverets
- noun - a young hare especially one in its first year
Levering
- verb - to move or force, especially in an effort to get something open; "The burglar jimmied the lock": "Raccoons managed to pry the lid off the garbage pail"
Levirate
- noun - the biblical institution whereby a man must marry the widow of his childless brother in order to maintain the brother's line
Liberace
- unknown - American pianist, singer and actor (1919 - 1987)
Liberals
- noun - a person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties
- a person who favors an economic theory of laissez-faire and self-regulating markets
Liberate
- verb - give equal rights to; of women and minorities
- grant freedom to; "The students liberated their slaves upon graduating from the university"
- grant freedom to; free from confinement
- release (gas or energy) as a result of a chemical reaction or physical decomposition
- To release, to enable to be free