Usuage

Quick meaning: Usuage is a noun meaning (engineering and services) usage; consumption or utilisation.

Meaning

(engineering and services) usage; consumption or utilisation.

More Meanings

1. Obsolete form of usage.

Example Sentences

Domestic consumption averaged at about 50% and industrial consumption at about 30% of the total consumption showing predominance of household usuage. A better industrial usuage is unlikely to be achieved from rural electrification.

But when the government of Churches came into the hands of their Successours; the names were by common usuage (which is the best master of words) very soon appropriated, that use Episcopus to the Ecclesiasticall Government or Bishop of a diocese and a that of Presbyter to the ordinary Minister or Priests.

[O]ur King [...] Richard the firſt, taking the Biſhop of Beauvoys [Philip of Dreux] in France, his great Enemy, armed from top to toe, priſoner in the field; commanded him to be ſtrictly kept in priſon in his arms, and would by no means ſuffer him to put them off: for which hard uſuage he complained to the Pope, [...]

1958, Norman Burns, "M-P PLANS AND PROJECTS", Merrill-Palmer Quarterly (1954-1958), vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 120–121. JSTOR On the validity of this slogan we do have some evidence; studies of library usuage indicate rather clearly that the library is not, in fact, the heart of the instructional program — that use of the library by students is mainly confined to assigned readings.

Word Forms

• usuages

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include utility, service, consumption, exploitation, prosumption, utile.

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