Definitions for usage

usage us·age

Spelling: [yoo-sij, -zij]
IPA: /ˈyu sɪdʒ, -zɪdʒ/

Usage is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 49 anagrams from letters in usage (aegsu).

Definitions for usage

noun

  1. a customary way of doing something; a custom or practice:
  2. the customary manner in which a language or a form of a language is spoken or written:
  3. a particular instance of this:
  4. any manner of doing or handling something; treatment:
  5. habitual or customary use; long-continued practice:
  6. an act of using or employing; use.

Origin of usage

1250-1300; Middle English Anglo-French, Old French Medieval Latin ūsāticum, equivalent to Latin ūs(us) (see use) + -āticum -age

Examples for usage

In The Sense of Style, Steven Pinker settles a war among the scolds with a sensible approach to usage.

This usage, cousin Clary, was not till all other means were tried with you.

Recently, it has started to climb to a recent all-time high of 10 percent usage.

In conformity with Oriental usage, the congregation was divided according to the sexes.

Four broke off Ambien usage after experiencing impaired concentration, continuing or aggravated depression, and manic reaction.

Language has many varieties of usage: grammar tries to reduce them to a single one.

Nest aggregates the data collects and provides a free monthly report that allows energy geeks to track their usage.

So if a device can help make a significant dent in usage, it can save a lot of watts, a lot of money, and a lot of emissions.

That is a name for our habitation, which has since grown up into usage.

What was the origin and significance of the usage to which allusion is here made?

Word Value for usage
Scrable

6

Words with friends

8

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