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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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

As by the elms that line its street, the hills that watch its roofs, Lyme, Conn., is sentineled by artistic good usage, fortressed by aesthetic tradition.

From Time Magazine Archive

Here is an example of good usage: NEW YORK, Feb.

From Newspaper Reporting and Correspondence A Manual for Reporters, Correspondents, and Students of Newspaper Writing by Grant Milnor Hyde

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