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usage
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usage
n.
use, employment; handling; custom, practice, convention
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Usage
Usage is the manner in which written and spoken language is used, the "points of grammar, syntax, style, and the choice of words". and "the way in which a word or phrase is normally and correctly used". Usage can mean the way people actually use language or prescriptively the way one group feels that people ought to use it.
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usage
Noun
1. the act of using; "he warned against the use of narcotic drugs"; "skilled in the utilization of computers"
(synonym) use, utilization, utilisation, employment, exercise
(hypernym) activity
(hyponym) practice
(derivation) use, utilize, utilise, apply, employ
2. accepted or habitual practice
(synonym) custom, usance
(hypernym) practice, pattern
(hyponym) Americanism
(derivation) use
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usage
nm.
use, employment, practice; wear, custom; purpose, usage
usagé
adj.
used, second hand, worn
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usage
n.
použití; spotřeba
