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/ˈjuːsɪd͡ʒ/ · us·age
noun
- The manner or the amount of using; use. The new employee was given guidance on the usage of the company's software.
- Habit or accepted practice. The usage of public transportation in the city has increased significantly over the years.
- The ways and contexts in which spoken and written words are used, determined by a lexicographer's intuition or from corpus analysis. The lexicographer studied the usage of slang words in modern language to better understand their evolution.
Did you know? The word 'usage' has been used in various contexts, including law, where it refers to the customary or traditional way of doing something, as in 'usage and custom of the sea'.