"Common usage" refers to how a word or term is typically spoken or understood by most people. It represents the way that language is commonly used in everyday conversations and is widely accepted.
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We now have a medical term
in common usage for the cluster of problems caused by poor diet and obesity: metabolic syndrome.
Yes, the terms «legacy publishing» and «legacy publishers» have come
into common usage.
«Personal» in
common usage means relevant to persons, or involved in the most characteristic activities or concerns of persons.
In it she points out that «to parent» didn't even become a verb until 1958, and wasn't even in
common usage until the 1970s.
However, there is often a disconnect
between common usage of the word and the meaning that flood takes within an insurance policy.
However, there is often a disconnect between
common usage of the word and the meaning that flood takes within an insurance policy.
But the
more common usage is that intent refers to the knowledge of the likely consequences of your conduct.
I consider it academically tragic that the definition of theory
in common usage means «unproven speculation».
Despite all this logic, we admit that the word habanero has come into
common usage as the generic term for the species — and that is why we use it in that manner.
The parkland had been in
common usage by the public, often for less than salubrious purposes.
Common usage frequently finds these names being also applied to Plenty More Fish UK dating site - There really are loads of fish in the sea and you'll find more of them at!
Other common usages are during the time that over during, until such time as instead of until, and in order to instead of to.
One is precisely this «answering back» or response in the usual sense; another, which in
common usage becomes «responsibility,» is our human accountability for what we do (or fail to do) in making just such a response.
Michael Novak («Defining Social Justice,» December 2000) would have us accept a definition of «social justice» that totally
disregards common usage.
A Peach Cobbler
predates common usage of «cocktail» and was a common way to cut the strength of strong spirits with the sweetness of fresh fruit.
But I note with horror that in the latest electronic version they have added the
recent common usage, formerly misusage.
We gather a couple of years after the technique started, the term
gained common usage in The Motley Fool website's forums, due to a contributor there called Stooz.
Without going into too much of a tangent (feel free to inquire by email if you are curious), I would like to suggest that beliefs, by
definition common usage, are antithetical to science, and that if we want to remove the polarization of political and policy elements, we must remove subjective terms like «believe» from the conversation.
But frankenstorm now has a specific meaning
due common usage, distinct from the other multihazard storms.
One
common usage mistake — and a particular obstinacy of the it's - right - because - that's - the - way - I've - always - done - it crowd — is failing to hyphenate phrasal adjectives.
Ah, the
dreaded common usage, a fate that's equivalent of death for a trademark, and one which now threatens one of the most recognizable internet brands, Google.
No pithy latin legal terms for this come readily to mind, although I'm sure that some obscure ones that have largely fallen out of
common usage exist.
With budget consultations underway, we're likely to see the term «stretch goal» enter the political lexicon in
common usage along with «revenue tools.»
It's easier I think to grasp why adverse possession «works» based on this smaller case... a right - of - way is a property right which can be established
via common usage.
No one before has tried to bring cryptocurrency
at common usage in terms of e-commerce,» says the projects white paper.
Phrases with «common usage»