Associations to the word «Usage»

Wiktionary

USAGE, noun. The manner or the amount of using; use
USAGE, noun. Habit or accepted practice
USAGE, noun. (lexicography) The ways and contexts in which spoken and written words are used, determined by a lexicographer's intuition or from corpus analysis.
USAGE, noun. Correct or proper use of language, proclaimed by some authority.
USAGE, noun. Geographic, social, or temporal restrictions on the use of words.
USAGE SHARE, noun. Market share

Dictionary definition

USAGE, noun. The act of using; "he warned against the use of narcotic drugs"; "skilled in the utilization of computers".
USAGE, noun. Accepted or habitual practice.
USAGE, noun. The customary manner in which a language (or a form of a language) is spoken or written; "English usage"; "a usage borrowed from French".

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky