have a use for something—find an application for which smth. can be used:
- I turned the material over to the radiochemistry department, which seemed to have a use for it.
Note: The expression is only partially antonymous in meaning to the phrase have no use for something—
1. have no application for which smth. can be used:
- My husband suggested we get it and I thought I had no use for it. We had a computer already but it was older and didn’t have a modem.
2. dislike smth.; be averse to smth.:
- I had no use for meditation even though I’d never tried it. I associated it with “new-agers” who didn’t, in my opinion, have a clue about real life.
have the use of something—be able or allowed to use smth.:
- Daddy was a pilot and so we had the use of all the small planes and flew everywhere … sometimes just on a Sunday for fun.