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Gebrauch — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • employment noun A paid job or work that someone does regularly.
  • usage noun The act or amount of using something, such as electricity, data, or a resource.
  • use verb To employ something for a particular purpose.

Senses

Gebrauch is used for these senses in English:

  • usage The established custom of using language; the ways and contexts in which spoken and written words are used, especially by a certain group of people or in a certain region. [from 14th c.]

employment — full definition

  1. noun A paid job or work that someone does regularly.
  2. noun The state or condition of having a paid job.

usage — full definition

  1. noun The act or amount of using something, such as electricity, data, or a resource.
  2. noun The way words or phrases are conventionally used by a particular group of speakers.

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