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uses

/ˈjuː.sɪz//ˈju.sɪz/

uses is the plural of use.

uses is the third-person singular simple present indicative of use.

Meaning of use

Noun

use (countable and uncountable, plural uses)

  1. The act of using.
    • The use of torture has been condemned by the United Nations.
    Synonyms:
    employment, usage, note, nait
  2. (uncountable) The act of consuming alcohol or narcotics.
    • Heavy alcohol use (2.5 drinks per day or more) at any age is unhealthy and should be avoided.2018, Timothy R. Jennings, The Aging Brain, →ISBN, page 93
  3. (uncountable) Usefulness, utility, benefit; purpose, point.
    • Near-synonyms: meaning, meaningfulness
  4. A function; a purpose for which something may be employed.
    • This tool has many uses.
  5. Occasion or need to employ; necessity.
    • I have no further use for these textbooks, but we may have use for all these other things later.
  6. (obsolete, rare) Interest for lent money; premium paid for the use of something; usury.
    • DON PEDRO. Come, lady, come; you have lost the heart of Signior Benedick.
      BEATRICE. Indeed, my lord, he lent it me awhile; and I gave him use for it, a double heart for a single one: [...]1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...

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Noun

uses pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) A form of equitable ownership peculiar to English law, by which one person enjoys the profits of lands, etc. whose legal title is vested in another in trust.

Proper noun capitalized: USES

USES

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of United States Employment Service.

Phrases with uses

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Words that rhyme with uses

Questions about uses

What does uses mean?
Uses means a form of equitable ownership peculiar to English law, by which one person enjoys the profits of lands, etc. whose legal title is vested in another in trust.
What is uses the plural of?
Uses is the plural of use.
What part of speech is uses?
Uses can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce uses?
Uses is pronounced /ˈjuː.sɪz/ (UK).

Words near uses in the dictionary

  1. userships
  2. userspace
  3. userspaces
  4. Usery
  5. Userys
  6. uses
  7. uses a sledgehammer to crack a nut
  8. uses in anger
  9. uses it
  10. uses one's head
  11. uses one's noggin

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Adapted from Wiktionary: uses (page history and authors); USES (page history and authors); use (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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