utilizzato

used

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Also means

employed

Usage Note

Utilizzato is the past participle of utilizzare ('to use, to utilise'), functioning here as an adjective. It is more formal than the everyday usato ('used'), which also means 'second-hand'. In bureaucratic or technical writing, utilizzato is strongly preferred. It agrees in gender and number: utilizzata, utilizzati, utilizzate.

Examples

"Il metodo più utilizzato è questo."

Natural Translation

The most used method is this one.

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