utilization
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utilizations
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Origin of utilization
First recorded in 1840–45; utiliz(e) ( def. ) + -ation ( def. )
Explanation
Utilization is a fancy way of saying "use." A team's utilization of a gym for practices might need to continue until it stops raining. You can see the verb utilize in utilization. When you utilize something, you use it, whether it is a tool, like when you utilize a pen to write something down, or a skill or talent, like the speed you utilize when you run a race. So utilization is the act of using, like the utilization of your voice that enables you to sing a song.
Vocabulary lists containing utilization
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The underlying drivers of Medicare spending — healthcare prices, utilization and the needs of an aging population — would remain unchanged.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 24, 2026
Typically, manufacturers aim for utilization around 80% to 85%.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Bank-rate credit-card expert Ana Staples warns that carrying a massive tuition balance on your card “spikes your credit utilization, which is a huge hit on your credit score.”
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026
Despite aggressive expansion, the company’s overall wafer utilization rate was 93.7% in the June quarter, up from 93.1% in the March quarter, it said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
“There is no better utilization of nervous energy than into ingredients that can make the stomach happy. Isn’t that right, Chandrashekhar?” she said to Oso, and dropped a piece of idli for him to eat.
From "From Twinkle, with Love" by Sandhya Menon
“Crucially, we also believe we are at the crux of a gross margin inflection point, driven by improving utilizations and GlobalFoundries aggressively expanding into accretive end-markets,” Muse wrote.
From Barron's ● May 4, 2026
The lower chemicals utilizations were already well flagged by the company, they say.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 15, 2026
The reduced utilizations, Rand found, occurred because the subjects decided to delay or forgo treatments, possibly inadvisedly.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 8, 2025
The utilizations of the date palm and its products are very numerous.
Compared with these traces of giant handiwork, what are the works of man? just little putterings for our own convenience, just little utilizations of waste energies for our own purposes.
From Two Thousand Miles on an Automobile Being a Desultory Narrative of a Trip Through New England, New York, Canada, and the West, By "Chauffeur" by Arthur Jerome Eddy
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