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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Many are already running at very high utilization rates to meet demand while compensating for disruptions in the Middle East and Russia, leaving little spare capacity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
Indeed, authorities stressed in a Thursday meeting that they would maximize existing measures, and promised to accelerate fiscal spending and bond utilization to boost domestic demand.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
Even if you have, say, a $40,000 credit limit on your existing card, you would still be using 80% of your credit utilization.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026
Management indicates that strong truck order intake will enable a substantial production ramp-up in the second half, which should support capacity utilization and hence profitability, RBC adds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
The utilization of planetary resources so that new interstellar spacecraft could be constructed locally would be a slow process.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
“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.
"Petrouchka" has a brilliance and vivacity and madness that makes Rimsky's scenes from popular life, his utilizations of vulgar tunes and dances scarcely comparable to it.
From Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers by Paul Rosenfeld
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