utilization

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Etymology

From French utilisation or from utilize +‎ -ation.

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utilization (countable and uncountable, plural utilizations)

  1. (Canada, US, Oxford British English) Alternative spelling of utilisation.
    • 2022 December 22, Vanessa Yurkevich, “America needs immigrants to solve its labor shortage”, in CNN:
      Skilled foreign farm workers are the backbone of US agriculture and are traditionally in the US on H-2A seasonal visas, which saw its highest ever utilization rate this year, according to the Farm Bureau.

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