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good usage

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noun

  1. (in a language) standard, prescribed, or acceptable usage of words or phrases.

    Your sentence violates the rules of good usage.


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I’ve racked my brain to give you a good usage scenario for Bluetooth 5, but it doesn’t exist yet.

From The Verge Jun. 20, 2017

It will be a smaller market than using gas to fire power plants, “but it’s a good usage of the gas,” he said.

From BusinessWeek Dec. 7, 2011

Yet such pointers are overwhelmed by humorless pedagogy, prolixity, questionable advice, and an embarrassing number of sins against good usage and grammar.

From Time Magazine Archive

The dean thought that good usage varied with time & place.

From Time Magazine Archive

The old Spanish chronicler is moved to remark that "it was not so good usage as she deserved for the good will she shewed and the good entertainment that she had made him."

From Stories Of Georgia by Harris, Joel Chandler

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