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

Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
Baruch Spinoza