utilization

[ yoot-l-ahy-zey-shuhn ]

noun

1. an act or instance of making practical or profitable use of something:

   I don't think this plan results in the best utilization of tax dollars.

Other Words From

• mis·u·ti·li·za·tion especially British, mis·u·ti·li·sa·tion noun
• non·u·ti·li·za·tion especially British, non·u·ti·li·sa·tion noun
• o·ver·u·ti·li·za·tion especially British, o·ver·u·ti·li·sa·tion noun
• pre·u·ti·li·za·tion especially British, pre·u·ti·li·sa·tion noun
• re·u·ti·li·za·tion especially British, re·u·ti·li·sa·tion noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of utilization¹

First recorded in 1840–45; utiliz(e) ( def ) + -ation ( def )

Example Sentences

ISBE determined that there was no medical or therapeutic need for the district to use the lap belts and that they were “utilized as a behavioral restraint to promote attention to task.”

From ProPublica

What Bluepoint and Sony did, however, was introduce a number of accessibility features to allow more people to play the game while also utilizing the PlayStation 5′s new user interface to offer help for the game’s grind.

From Washington Post

That can still be true, but only if advertisers and agencies utilize a unified linear and digital data set to activate across the video ecosystem.

From Digiday

As a practical matter, the program will likely be utilized by very small businesses with relatively few employees.

From Search Engine Land

The company also utilizes shared calendars and various report views for specific teams.

From Search Engine Land

In the first quarter, that led to lower spending—either through lower utilization, or lower prices, or some combination thereof.

From The Daily Beast

Carbon utilization can offset or even exceed, the additional cost of carbon scrubbing.

From The Daily Beast

We found a statistically significant increase in utilization (both extensive and total) only for heart disease.

From The Daily Beast

Utilization went up, out-of-pocket expenditure went down, and the freqency of depression diagnoses was lower.

From The Daily Beast

Some unions are worried that Obamacare is taking away some of the tools they use to control utilization and costs.

From The Daily Beast

To Willis, however, must be attributed greater advance in the utilization of heavy pressures for reed work.

From Project Gutenberg

Few, however, can now be found who do not advocate utilization of the principle to a greater or less degree in every organ.

From Project Gutenberg

It is the utilization of this time, how best to employ it, that concerns us here.

From Project Gutenberg

It represents the greatest possible utilization of the power of heat in an internal-combustion engine.

From Project Gutenberg

This stage having been attained, the totemic age advances to a utilization of the soil in a way that is unknown to primitive man.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• application
• discharge
• employment
• usage