Noun

Singular usage

Plural usages

usage (plural usages)

1. The manner or the amount of using; use
2. Habit or accepted practice
3. (lexicography) The ways and contexts in which spoken and written words are used, determined by a lexicographer's intuitition or from corpus analysis.
   1. Correct or proper use of language, proclaimed by some authority.
   2. Geographic, social, or temporal restrictions on the use of words.

Derived terms

• usage dictionary
• usage guide
• usage label
• usage lexicography
• usage note
• usage panel

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