put to use
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Meaning
put to use (third-person singular simple present puts to use, present participle putting to use, simple past and past participle put to use)
(transitive) To use; to utilise; to apply.
If you put this make-up to use, you should be able to hide that blemish.
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According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, the definition of “practical” as it applies to this context is “capable of being put to use or account.”
Applications While anagramming is certainly a recreation first, there are ways in which anagrams are put to use, and these can be more serious, or at least not quite frivolous and formless.
Arizona and the target ship Utah were too heavily damaged for salvage, though much of their armament and equipment was removed and put to use aboard other vessels.
At the time he was living in Valladolid, then briefly the capital (1601–1606), and finishing Don Quixote Part One, he was presumably working in the banking industry, or a related occupation where his accounting skills could be put to use.
Biological pest control main Predators may be put to use in conservation efforts to control introduced species.
Exactly how covid-19 detection dogs might be put to use in the United States would depend on demands, Otto said, though no one’s talking about stationing a dog in every hospital or testing site.