usage

n

1. custom, practice, habit, tradition, way; form, formality, convention, matter of course, observance; routine, course, manner, method, procedure, policy, rule; wont, habitude, consuetude, praxis; fashion, mode, common practice, the way it's done, way of doing things, prescription, folkway.

2. treatment, handling, management, way of dealing, maneuvering; conduct, running, operation, manipulation, control, administration.

3. manner of speaking, manner, speech, diction, language, parole, talk; idiom, parlance, phraseology, dialect, ideolect; expression, locution, wording, word, utterance, turn of expression, phrasing.

4. employment, application, exercise, practice. See use(def. 7).