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noun
(psychology) an automatic pattern of behavior in reaction to a specific situation; may be inherited or acquired through frequent repetition
Synonyms: habits, wonts, practices, praxes, ways, usages, manners, customs
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noun
What something is used for
Synonyms: services, applications, advantages, utilities, manipulations, purposes, steads, merits, practices, profits, employments, needs, values, necessities, duties, avails, worths, functions, dispositions, usages, traditions, aid, prescriptions, conveniences, excellences, efficacies, customs, roles
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noun
The quality of being suitable or adaptable to an end
Synonyms: utilities, profits, avails, accounts, advantages, benefits
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noun
The act of using
Synonyms: exercises, usages, applications, practices, plays, conducts, controls, employments, resorts, methods, performances, implementations, adoptions, associations, resolutions, realizations, techniques, operations, treatments, recourses, managements, exertions, appliances, manipulations
Antonyms: neglects, dismissals
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verb
To make a practice of; now only in the past tense with an infinitive
Synonyms: practices, doth
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verb
To behave toward
Synonyms: manages, runs, handles, works, operates
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verb
Take or consume (regularly or habitually)
Synonyms: habituates, expends, presumes, abuses, exploits, imposes
Antonyms: abstains
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verb
Avail oneself to
Synonyms: practices, utilizes, employs, applies, works, exploits, exercises, actuates, accepts, wonts, wields, values, adopts, try, implements, treats, squanders, spends, regulates, operates, occupies, needs, relates, manipulates, manages, inures, incurs, impoverishes, hires, handles, habituates, guides, gains, functions, expends, exhausts, devours, depletes, demands, controls, consumes, capitalizes, exerts, benefits, avails, advantages, accustoms
Antonyms: rejects, refuses, discards
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noun
A quantity consumed
Synonyms: consumptions, usages
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(law) the exercise of the legal right to enjoy the benefits of owning property
Synonyms: enjoyments
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(economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing
Synonyms: consumptions