ADJ
- heavy, high
- high energy usage
- low
- normal
- With normal usage, the equipment should last at least five years
- drug
- Drug usage by teenagers has increased in recent years
- energy
- water
PREP
- ~ of
- Usage of computers in schools is increasing
ADJ
- common, everyday, general, normal, ordinary, popular
- That word is no longer in common usage
- current, modern
- a book on current English usage
- actual
- Actual usage of the word is different from the meaning given in the dictionary
- correct
- American, English, etc.
- language, linguistic, word
- colloquial
VERB + USAGE
- come into, enter
- The term 'eco-tourism' entered common usage in the 1990s
PREP
- in ~
- The word has a slightly different meaning in popular usage
PHRASES
- patterns of usage
- Dictionary definitions tend to show stereotypical patterns of usage