usage

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Etymology

From Anglo-Norman and Old French usage.

Pronunciation

IPA: /ˈjuːsid͡ʒ/, /ˈjuːzid͡ʒ/
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Noun

usage (plural usages)

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

Derived terms

usage dictionary
usage guide
usage label
usage lexicography
usage note
usage panel

Translations

the manner or the amount of using; use

Chinese:
Mandarin: 用法 (cmn) (yòngfǎ)
Finnish: käyttö (fi), käsittely (fi)
French: usage (fr) m
German: Verwendung (de) f, Benutzung (de) f, Anwendung (de) f
Hungarian: használat (hu)
Japanese: 使い方 (ja) (tsukaikata)

Malayalam: വിനിയോഗം (ml) (viniyogam)
Norwegian: bruksområde (no) n
Persian: کاربرد (fa) (kârbord)
Portuguese: uso (pt) m
Russian: использование (ru) (ispólʹzovanije) n , применение (ru) (primenénije) n , обращение (ru) (obraščénije) n , употребление (ru) (upotreblénije) n
Sanskrit: विनियोगः (sa) (viniyogah)

habit or accepted practice

Chinese:
Mandarin: 習慣 (cmn), 习惯 (cmn) (xíguàn)
Finnish: käytäntö (fi)
French: coutume (fr) f
German: Brauch (de) m
Hungarian: szokás (hu), gyakorlat (hu)

Japanese: 使い方 (ja) (tsukaikata), 習慣 (ja) (しゅうかん, shūkan)
Norwegian: anvendelse (no) m
Portuguese: emprego (pt) m
Russian: обычай (ru) (obýčaj) m , обыкновение (ru) (obyknovénije) n , привычка (ru) (privýčka) f , традиция (ru) (tradícija) f

the way words are spoken or written in a community

Finnish: kielenkäyttö (fi), puhetapa (fi)
German: Gebrauch (de) m
Hungarian: szóhasználat (hu)
Japanese: 使い方 (ja) (tsukaikata), 用法 (ja) (yōhō)

Norwegian: bruk (no) m
Portuguese: emprego (pt) m
Russian: употребление (ru) (upotreblénije) n

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Help:How to check translations.

Translations to be checked

Dutch: gebruik (nl)
German: (1) Nutzung (de) f, (2,3) Benutzung (de) f
Indonesian: pemakaian (id)
Italian: uso (it) m, utilizzo (it) m

Latvian: lietojums (lv) m
Telugu: వాడుక (te) (vaaDuka)
Portuguese: (1) uso (pt) m

References

“usage” in R.R.K. Hartmann and Gregory James, Dictionary of Lexicography, Routledge, 1998.
Sydney I. Landau (2001), Dictionaries: The Art and Craft of Lexicography, 2nd ed., Cambridge University Press, p 217.