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1 a: firmly established and generally accepted practice or procedure b: a uniform certain reasonable lawful practice existing in a particular locality or occupation and binding persons entering into transactions chiefly on the basis of presumed familiarity c: the way in which words and phrases are actually used (as in a particular form or sense) in a language community 2 a: the action, amount, or mode of using <a decrease in the ~ of electricity> b: manner of treating <suffered ill ~ at the hands of his captors> syn see habit |