usage
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
usage/ˈjuːsɪʤ/
▶noun
- 1 the action of using something or the fact of being used.
- 2 habitual or customary practice.
- 3 the way in which a word or phrase is normally and correctly used.
'usage' also found in these Oxford entries:
a
- AD
- adverse
- affect
- agenda
- aggravate
- ago
- ain't
- alibi
- alright
- alternate
- alternative
- although
- altogether
- American Indian
- amoral
- an
- and
- antisocial
- anyone
- apostrophe
- appraise
- apprise
- aren't
- around
- as
- Asian
- Asiatic
- assurance
- auger
- augur
- aural
- Australoid
- averse
- bacterium
- Bantu
- bated
- BC
- because
- beg
- better
- between
- bi-
- bio-
- black
- blonde
- bored
- borrow
- burl
- can
