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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

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

Her little hands write, but they're not always white, With marks of good usage they're speckled, While the face, once so fair, has been kissed by the air, Until 'tis considerably freckled.

From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 6 June 1848 by Robert Taylor Conrad

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