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usage

 noun
     
Related topics: Linguistics, Languages
us‧age
1 [uncountable and countable]SLL the way that words are used in a language:
a book on modern English usage
2 [uncountable] the way in which something is used, or the amount of it that is used:
Water usage is increasing.
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