put to use

put to use
{v. phr.} To use. * /During the early part of the Korean war the cooks and office workers of the U.S. Army were put to use in battle./ * /Henry decided to put his dictionary to use./ * /I wish you'd put the lawn mower to use!/

Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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  • put to use — index apply (put in practice), employ (make use of), exercise (use), exploit (make use of) …   Law dictionary

  • put to use — {v. phr.} To use. * /During the early part of the Korean war the cooks and office workers of the U.S. Army were put to use in battle./ * /Henry decided to put his dictionary to use./ * /I wish you d put the lawn mower to use!/ …   Dictionary of American idioms

  • put\ to\ use — v. phr. To use. During the early part of the Korean war the cooks and office workers of the U.S. Army were put to use in battle. Henry decided to put his dictionary to use. I wish you d put the lawn mower to use! …   Словарь американских идиом

  • put to use — put (something) to (good) use : to use (something) in an effective way I m looking forward to putting my new skills to use. [=to using my new skills; to doing what I have just learned to do] Thanks for the donation. We ll put it to good use. [=we …   Useful english dictionary

  • put to use — use; apply …   English contemporary dictionary

  • put to use — verb to use; to utilise; to apply If you put this make up to use you should be able to hide that imperfection …   Wiktionary

  • To put to use — Use Use, n. [OE. us use, usage, L. usus, from uti, p. p. usus, to use. See {Use}, v. t.] [1913 Webster] 1. The act of employing anything, or of applying it to one s service; the state of being so employed or applied; application; employment;… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • put to use — idi to find a function for; utilize …   From formal English to slang

  • put — W1S1 [put] v past tense and past participle put present participle putting [T] ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(move to place)¦ 2¦(change somebody s situation/feelings)¦ 3¦(write/print something)¦ 4¦(express)¦ 5 put a stop/an end to something 6 put something into… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • use — [n] application; employment account, adoption, advantage, appliance, applicability, appropriateness, avail, benefit, call, capitalization, cause, convenience, custom, end, exercise, exercising, exertion, fitness, good, habit, handling, help,… …   New thesaurus

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