usage

Etymology

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

noun

  1. Habit, practice.
    1. A custom or established practice.
      [S]everal young people sung sacred music in the churchyard at night, which it seems is an usage here. 1792, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer (Journals 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 170
    2. (uncountable) Custom, tradition.
  2. Utilization.
    1. The act of using something; use, employment.
    2. 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.
    3. (now archaic) Action towards someone; treatment, especially in negative sense.

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