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Date:      Mon, 08 Apr 2002 15:10:59 -0700
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
To:        freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Use/Utilize
Message-ID:  <3CB21573.C1E81870@mindspring.com>
References:  <3CB18101.A13A693E@mindspring.com> <200204081232.g38CWKPL054578@grimreaper.grondar.org>

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Mark Murray wrote:
> > Mike Meyer wrote:
> > > I agree with that. But there may be an American dialect for which it's
> > > not true. In particlar, they may have a legal meaning totally
> > > different from any meaning in common use.
> >                                        ^^^ - noun... definition 9(*)
> >
> > (*) Not a synonym for "utilize"
> 
> But "utilization" is a synonym.

"The state of being utilized"?  Hardly...

-- Terry

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