---

• n  the act of using
• n  accepted or habitual practice
• n  the customary manner in which a language (or a form of a language) is spoken or written
  English usage
  a usage borrowed from French

• This elegant flower-shaped light harbors an eco-friendly secret: it monitors the overall energy usage in your household.
• Still, they agreed that current usage of McJob is offensive, although others say that the burger chain is missing the point: it's the job that the term describes, not the person .
• Schipper estimates the cost of peak usage is 20 cents per kW-h, as opposed to an average of 13 cents for "baseload capacity" usage, and it is far more carbon-intense because it is .

• use
• utilization
• utilisation
• employment
• exercise
• custom
• usance

News & Articles

---

• Help manage town’s sports fields
  The Ashland Fields Management Group is seeking a volunteer representing local youth sports to serve on the five-member town committee. The panel, which is appointed by the Board of Selectmen and School Committee and reports to the selectmen, provides oversight and management for all fields in town with regards to maintenance, usage, and improvements. Members serve two-year terms; the current ...
  June 16, 2013 - Boston Globe
• Bigger threat: Edward Snowden or NSA?
  What do you think of Edward Snowden? By leaking classified documents to the media and revealing that the National Security Agency has been monitoring our phone and Internet usage, is he a traitor or a hero? Could he simply be a narcissist looking to get famous? Or do you not care about either him or the NSA surveillance programs?
  June 15, 2013 - CNN
• Summer temps heat up talk about conservation and water wasting
  As our temperatures go up, typically, so does area water usage, but sometimes some of that usage may be more wasteful than useful.
  June 13, 2013 - KFDA-TV Amarillo

Quotes

---

• President Bush in BusinessWeek
  That's a major technological breakthrough for the country,Bush said. "If you want to reduce gasoline usage like I believe we need to do so for national security reasons as well as for environmental concerns, the consumer has got to be in a...
• Theo Epstein in Forbes
  We've discussed that concept,Epstein said. "I think it's premature to commit to any usage pattern. But, certainly, we're in a little bit of a unique situation where a number of our starters might benefit from something like that."
• Steve Ballmer in Economic Times
  India will not only see a surge in consumption of cloud services, driving growth in domestic IT usage, but companies all over the world will look to India to support their transition to cloud computing,Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said.