say it: yoo-tuh-luh-ZAY-shuhn
utilization is a noun meaning "the act of using". It carries 2 recorded senses.
the act of using
“he warned against the use of narcotic drugs”
“skilled in the utilization of computers”
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 utilization come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.