utilize
[yoot-l-ahyz]
- to put to use; turn to profitable account: to utilize a stream to power a mill.
Also especially British, u·ti·lise.
Origin of utilize
Synonyms
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Examples from the Web for utilization
Contemporary Examples
We found a statistically significant increase in utilization (both extensive and total) only for heart disease.
Study: Giving People Government Health Insurance May Not Make them Any HealthierMegan McArdle
May 1, 2013
Utilization went up, out-of-pocket expenditure went down, and the freqency of depression diagnoses was lower.
Study: Giving People Government Health Insurance May Not Make them Any HealthierMegan McArdle
May 1, 2013
We also have huge regional swings in the utilization of various procedures and services that bear no relation to outcomes.
Historical Examples
The utilization of credit begins, as we have seen, with the very planting of the crop.
The Fabric of CivilizationAnonymous
Utilization of natural cover; construction of fieldworks and obstacles.
Manual of Military TrainingJames A. Moss
It is the utilization of this time, how best to employ it, that concerns us here.
The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 (of 4)W. Grant Hague
It was on rapidity, quick judgment, the utilization of seconds, that he depended.
The Pillar of LightLouis Tracy
When utilization goes down to f, O comes into use, and so on.
The Principles of EconomicsFrank A. Fetter
utilize
utilise
- (tr) to make practical or worthwhile use of
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Word Origin and History for utilization
n.
1847, noun of action from utilize.
utilize
1807, from French utiliser, from Italian utilizzare, from utile "usable," from Latin utilis "usable," from uti (see use (v.)).
Utilize is fast antiquating improve, in the sense of 'turn to account.' [Fitzedward Hall, "Modern English," 1873]
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