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say it: YOO-suhj
usage is a noun meaning "the act of using". It carries 3 recorded senses.
the act of using
“he warned against the use of narcotic drugs”
“skilled in the utilization of computers”
the customary manner in which a language (or a form of a language) is spoken or written
“English usage”
“a usage borrowed from French”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for usage come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.