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put to use

put to use verb: to use; to utilise; to apply.

Verb

put to use (third-person singular simple present puts to use, present participle putting to use, simple past and past participle put to use)

  1. (idiomatic, transitive) To use; to utilise; to apply.
    • This agreement nonetheless precludes the land from being put to another use.
    • Every man has a cross only he has to bear / If he's lost, that's the cost for not plannin' way ahead / We were all born with the tools, so let's put them all to use / One day we may all have problems, but complainin' just won't solve them1976, Double Exposure, “Everyman”, in Ten Percent
    Synonyms:
    deploy

put to use meaning in Tamil and Bengali

put to use in Tamil

to put to use, practise, exercise
புழங்கு puḻaṅku

put to use in Bengali

ব্যবহার করা, কাজে লাগানো, প্রয়োগ করা

Synonyms of put to use

Forms of put to use

third-person singular presentputs to use
present participleputting to use
past participleput to use
pastput to use

Words formed from put to use

Questions about put to use

What does put to use mean?
Put to use means to use; to utilise; to apply.
What is put to use in Tamil?
Put to use in Tamil is புழங்கு (puḻaṅku). See Put to use meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is put to use?
Put to use is a verb.
What is the past tense of put to use?
The past tense of put to use is put to use.

Words near put to use in the dictionary

  1. put to the horn
  2. put to the sword
  3. put to the test
  4. put to the torch
  5. put to the vote
  6. put to use
  7. put to words
  8. put to work
  9. put together
  10. put two and two together
  11. put two and two together and came up with five

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Adapted from Wiktionary: put to use (page history and authors); புழங்கு (Tamil) (page history and authors); put to use (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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