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What does usage mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word usage? Here's what it means.

Noun
  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 intuition 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.
  4. (obsolete) The treatment of someone or something.
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Revised editions appeared throughout the twentieth century to keep it up to date with changes in English usage.
Wasiolek said the school has not done any kind of survey on Adderall usage to determine whether the policy has made an impact.
Because of its efficacy and widespread clinical usage, amphetamine has been the standard anorexigenic drug for some time.
Less dense usage is suggested for north Ayrshire, Renfrewshire, the Clyde Valley and eastern Dumfriesshire.
The usage of coin weights, especially glass ones, goes back to Ptolemaic and Byzantine times.
This usage of the word is the origin of the modern concept of Germanic languages, but it was not defined strictly by language.

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