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usage
[ yoo-sij, -zij ]
noun
- a customary way of doing something; a custom or practice:
the usages of the last 50 years.
Synonyms: convention, habit, tradition
- the customary manner in which a language or a form of a language is spoken or written:
English usage; a grammar based on usage rather than on arbitrary notions of correctness.
- a particular instance of this:
a usage borrowed from French.
- any manner of doing or handling something; treatment:
rough usage.
- habitual or customary use; long-continued practice:
immemorial usage.
usage
/ -zɪdʒ; ˈjuːsɪdʒ /
noun
- the act or a manner of using; use; employment
- constant use, custom, or habit
- something permitted or established by custom or practice
- what is actually said in a language, esp as contrasted with what is prescribed
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- non·usage noun
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of usage1
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Example Sentences
In The Sense of Style, Steven Pinker settles a war among the scolds with a sensible approach to usage.
What infuriates some purists is the fact that correct usage ultimately depends on the majority of speakers.
After food stamp usage hit record-breaking numbers in 2013, Congress tried to pare back the benefit.
Many people time their medication usage or implement behavioral changes as soon as they experience their specific aura.
The league also permanently banned four players for drug usage.
“Ill-usage” expresses the date of the death of Columbus in 1506, as he died in great neglect.
Every rigor of hard fare, and severe usage, was inexorably brought upon him.
Age and usage were to be of no avail in bringing this wretched piece of workmanship up to the standard of the average.
Their rights and limitations in this regard are also bounded by charter, by-laws and usage.
The authority of a factor to fix the terms of selling may be by agreement or by usage, like any other agent.
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