usages
SayYOO-sij-iz/ˈjuːsɪd͡ʒɪz/
- 1Plural of usage.
Editors track shifting usages to keep the style guide current.
Older usages of the term survive mainly in legal documents.
Note
A plural that only some meanings of usage will take. Where usage names something countable, such as a particular custom, a way a word is used, or a writer's choice of style, it pluralizes freely: regional usages, older usages. Where it means custom or tradition in the mass, as in sanctioned by long usage, there is no plural. Writing usages there turns one body of tradition into a list of separate customs.
usages is a form of usage
usage, noun: The act of using something; the employment of a thing for some purpose. Full entry
- Forms
- usageusages plural
- Spelling
- usage → usages: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪz/, an extra syllable.
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