usage🔊

Habit, practice.

A custom or established practice.

Custom, tradition.

Utilization.

The act of using something; use, employment.

(language) The established custom of using language; the ways and contexts in which spoken and written words are used, especially by a certain group of people or in a certain region.

# (Q1047050) Prevailing language style: how words are used among a populace.

# (P6191) Choice of language style (made by a speaker or writer).

(archaic) Action towards someone; treatment, especially in negative sense.