usage

  1. Noun.  The manner or the amount of using; use.
  2. Noun.  Habit or accepted practice.
  3. Noun.  (lexicography) The ways and contexts in which spoken and written words are used, determined by a lexicographer's intuition or from corpus analysis.

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