usual
pronunciation
How to pronounce usual in British English:
UK [ˈjuːʒuəl]
How to pronounce usual in American English:
US [ˈjuːʒuəl]
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- Adjective:
- occurring or encountered or experienced or observed frequently or in accordance with regular practice or procedure
- commonly encountered
Word Origin
- usual
- usual: [14] That which is usual is etymologically that which is commonly ‘used’ or employed, or which commonly obtains. The word was acquired, probably via Old French usual, from late Latin ūsuālis, a derivative of Latin ūsus (source of the English noun use).=> use
- usual (adj.)
- late 14c., from Old French usuel "current, in currency (of money), valid" (13c.) and directly from Late Latin usualis "ordinary," from Latin usus "custom" (see use (v.)). The usual suspects is from a line delivered by Claude Rains (as a French police inspector) in "Casablanca" (1942).
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Example
- 1. The pay packages diverged from nomura 's usual practices .
- 2. There are no more international tourists than usual though .
- 3. This will double the usual frame-rate to enable two separate sets of images to be interleaved .
- 4. Neither is a cash outlay in the usual sense .
- 5. But scrupulously reflects the usual terror .