UTILIZE

use, utilize, utilise, apply, employ

(verb) put into service; make work or employ for a particular purpose or for its inherent or natural purpose; “use your head!”; “we only use Spanish at home”; “I can’t use this tool”; “Apply a magnetic field here”; “This thinking was applied to many projects”; “How do you utilize this tool?”; “I apply this rule to get good results”; “use the plastic bags to store the food”; “He doesn’t know how to use a computer”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Verb

utilize (third-person singular simple present utilizes, present participle utilizing, simple past and past participle utilized)

(US, Canada, Oxford) Alternative spelling of utilise

Usage notes

• See usage notes at utilise.

Source: Wiktionary

U"til*ize, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Utilized; p. pr. & vb. n. Utilizing.] Etym: [Cf. F. utiliser.]

Definition: To make useful; to turn to profitable account or use; to make use of; as, to utilize the whole power of a machine; to utilize one's opportunities. In former ages, the mile-long corridors, with their numerous alcoves, might have been utilized as . . . dungeons. Hawthorne.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition