This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

• Lexulous
• Wordscraper
• Wordosaur

n. The act, manner, or amount of using; use: the usage of a technical term; an instrument that measures water usage.

n. The act or manner of treating; treatment: subjected the car to rough usage.

n. A usual, habitual, or accepted practice. See Synonyms at habit.

n. The way in which words or phrases are actually used, spoken, or written in a speech community.

n. A particular expression in speech or writing: a nonce usage.

n. The manner or the amount of using; use

n. Habit or accepted practice

n. The ways and contexts in which spoken and written words are used, determined by a lexicographer's intuition or from corpus analysis.

n. The act of using; mode of using or treating; treatment; conduct with respect to a person or a thing.

n. Manners; conduct; behavior.

n. Long-continued practice; customary mode of procedure; custom; habitual use; method.

n. Customary use or employment, as of a word or phrase in a particular sense or signification.

n. Experience.

n. Use; enjoyment.

n. The act of using.

n. Mode of using or treating; treatment.

n. Long-continued use or practice; customary way of acting; habitual use; custom; practice: as, the ancient usage of Parliament.

n. Established or customary mode of employing a particular word, phrase, or construction; current locution.

n. Manners; behavior; conduct.

n. Synonyms Habit, Manner, etc. See custom.

n. the act of using

n. accepted or habitual practice

n. the customary manner in which a language (or a form of a language) is spoken or written

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

habit    use    custom    treatment    manners    conduct    behavior    method    experience    practice   

custom    requirement    practice    policy    regulation    code    discipline    use    constitution    environment