itemize

Definitions  ·  Examples  ·  Pronunciations  ·  Etymologies  ·  Related  ·  Statistics  ·  Comments  · 
“
My favorites from the itemize are "Scale" and the pane previews.

View all »
Definitions (7)

Toggle American Heritage definitions American Heritage Dictionary (3)

  1. transitive verb To place or include on a list of items: itemized her expenses on the proper form.
  2. transitive verb To list the items of: itemized the expense account.
  3. intransitive verb To list deductions from taxable income on a tax return: This benefit is available only to taxpayers who itemize.

Toggle Century definitions Century Dictionary (1)

Toggle GNU Webster definitions GNU Webster's 1913 (1)

Toggle WordNet definitions WordNet (2)

Toggle elsewhere links Elsewhere on the web

View all »
Examples (50)

  • If I have to itemize (which is a little more confusing to me), an acountant friend, who's more 'up to speed' on the latest tax info, helps me prepare the return in exchange for something I can do for her (she hates to sew) that takes an equivalent amount of time, or give her $25-30 ... the cost of a nice dinner for two. —  The Red Tape Chronicles
  • For most taxpayers who itemize, interest on a home mortgage is often the largest source of their deductions. —  Brookings: Latest From Brookings
  • Usually ... we think of this only for people who itemize, but this is for those who don't. —  DigTriad.com - Top News
  • For those who don't itemize property taxes can be deducted for the first time ever based on the amount of state and local real-estate taxes paid in 2008. —  The Daily Sentinel: News
  • Conversely, Christenson used his time to itemize and individually deconstruct each of Wepsiec's witnesses.
More examples »
 

Tags

itemize hasn't been tagged yet.

Sign up or sign in to add tags.

Stats

This word has been looked up 89 times.

stop updating
On Twitter

Photos from

flickr images

Add a related word »
Related

Roget's II Roget's II: The New Thesaurus

Allen's Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms

Used in the same contextWord Family

itemize:   itemizing ·  itemized
Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary. Copyright © 2003, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
 

Pronunciations
Record your own »
/ˈaɪtɛmaɪz/
by American Heritage

Charts
frequency chart

Bubble size: how much this word was used in a year

Bubble height: used more or less than expected, vs. all uses evenly distributed

You can expect to see this word a few times a year.

Recently looked up

significance · riddling · lap · thruppence · animals

Recent Favorites

pygopagus · sanglant · Astacus · sweetbread · qualms

Recent Pronunciations

be careful! the razor is razor-sharp! · minty-fresh death threat · please stop sucking the monkeybread · beauregard · unicycle hockey