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 Definitions of Usage  [ˈyu sɪdʒ, -zɪdʒ]  

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Definition of 'Usage' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (n.) usage
a customary way of doing something; a custom or practice.

2.  usage
the customary manner in which a language or a form of a language is spoken or written:
a grammar based on usage rather than on arbitrary notions of correctness.

3.  usage
a particular instance of this:
a usage borrowed from French.

4.  usage
any manner of doing or handling something; treatment:
rough usage.

5.  usage
habitual or customary use; long-continued practice.

6.  usage
an act of using or employing; use.

Etymology:  (1250–1300; ME < AF, OF < ML ūsāticum, der. of L ūsus (see use ))

Definition of 'Usage' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) use, usage, utilization, utilisation, employment, exercise
the act of using
"he warned against the use of narcotic drugs"; "skilled in the utilization of computers"

2. (noun) custom, usage, usance
accepted or habitual practice

3. (noun) usage
the customary manner in which a language (or a form of a language) is spoken or written
"English usage"; "a usage borrowed from French"


Definition of 'Usage' Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary 

1. (noun) usage
the way words are used in a language
examples of informal usage in English; unusual usages

2.  usage
the process of using sth, or the amount used
electricity usage


Definition of 'Usage' Webster Dictionary 

1. (noun) Usage
the act of using; mode of using or treating; treatment; conduct with respect to a person or a thing; as, good usage; ill usage; hard usage

2. (noun) Usage
manners; conduct; behavior

3. (noun) Usage
long-continued practice; customary mode of procedure; custom; habitual use; method

4. (noun) Usage
customary use or employment, as of a word or phrase in a particular sense or signification

5. (noun) Usage
experience


Definitions of 'Usage' The Roycroft Dictionary 

Usage
The consecration in time of something that was originally absurd.



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