usage
Example Sentences
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The company is known for its descriptionist approach to definitions, meaning that it bases its decisions on usage.
It found that interest rate caps often produced unintended consequences, such as substantially slowed credit growth and higher usage fees.
From Barron's
The move reflects the decline in cash usage, and saves the government money: Each one-cent piece had cost 3.7 cents to make.
In Leavitt’s usage, “transparency” has become a form of Orwellian “doublespeak,” a word or phrase which through the process of “doublethink” had come to encompass its exact opposite meaning.
From Salon
Dr Jay also notes that some high-profile people are turning against social media - though she says there is not yet much evidence of a significant fall in usage among young adults.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
