Usage

//ˈjuːsɪd͡ʒ// noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Habit, practice.; A custom or established practice. countable, uncountable

    "[S]everal young people sung sacred music in the churchyard at night, which it seems is an usage here."

  2. 2
    accepted or habitual practice wordnet
  3. 3
    Habit, practice.; Custom, tradition. uncountable
  4. 4
    the act of using wordnet
  5. 5
    Utilization.; The act of using something; use, employment. countable, uncountable

    "Demand continues to increase, and in 2023-24 recorded usage was higher than pre-COVID, with 384,000 passenger journeys in total (of which 247,000 were at the town location). At the other end of the branch, Truro station had usage of 1.19 million, of which 255,000 were recorded as interchange passengers."

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  1. 6
    the customary manner in which a language (or a form of a language) is spoken or written wordnet
  2. 7
    Utilization.; The established custom of using language; the ways and contexts in which spoken and written words are used, especially by a certain group of people or in a certain region.; Prevailing language style: how words are used among a populace. countable, uncountable

    "In descriptive fact, word senses are established by usage."

  3. 8
    Utilization.; The established custom of using language; the ways and contexts in which spoken and written words are used, especially by a certain group of people or in a certain region.; Choice of language style (made by a speaker or writer). countable, uncountable

    "usage prescriptions"

  4. 9
    Utilization.; Action towards someone; treatment, especially in negative sense. archaic, countable, uncountable

    "Whose sharp provokement them incenst so sore, / That both were bent t'avenge his usage base […]"

Etymology

From Middle English usage, from Anglo-Norman and Old French usage.

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