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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
utilise is a verb meaning "put into service; make work or employ for a particular purpose or for its inherent or natural purpose". It carries one recorded sense.
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”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for utilise come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.