using

1. 1.

   an act that exploits or victimizes someone (treats them unfairly)

   “capitalistic exploitation of the working class”

   “paying Blacks less and charging them more is a form of victimization”

   Synonymsexploitationvictimizationvictimisation

   Broadermistreatment

   Narrowerblaxploitationsexploitationcolonialism

Other forms of using

plural

usings·

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.

Questions about using

What does using mean?

using means "an act that exploits or victimizes someone (treats them unfairly)".

How many syllables are in using?

using has 2 syllables: u-sing. The stress falls on "u". In IPA it is /ˈjuzɪŋ/.

What is another word for using?

Close synonyms include exploitation, victimization, victimisation. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is using a common word?

using is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.