Synonyms: custom, usage, usance
Definition: accepted or habitual practice
Similar words: practice, pattern
Definition: a customary way of operation or behavior
Usage: it is their practice to give annual raises; they changed their dietary pattern
Similar words: survival
Definition: something that survives
Synonyms: consumption, economic consumption, usance, use, use of goods and services
Definition: (economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing
Usage: the consumption of energy has increased steadily
Similar words: demand
Definition: the ability and desire to purchase goods and services
Usage: the automobile reduced the demand for buggywhips; the demand exceeded the supply
Synonyms: usance
Definition: the period of time permitted by commercial usage for the payment of a bill of exchange (especially a foreign bill of exchange)
Similar words: time period, period, period of time
Definition: an amount of time
Usage: a time period of 30 years; hastened the period of time of his recovery; Picasso's blue period