Here she collaborates with her husband, Mitchell Sharmat. They live in Tucson, Arizona. More about Marjorie Weinman Sharmat. Bestselling Books: Nate the Great, Nate the Great and the Halloween Hunt (Nate the Great, No. 12) , Nate the Great Goes Undercover.
Usage is defined as the way that something is being used, or to the proper way to make use of something such as a word or phrase or tool. 1  When the power company measures how and when people use power, this is an example of a study of usage. 2  When you use a word incorrectly, this is an example of an improper usage.
(uncountable and countable, rhetoric) The use of a word or phrase to refer to something that it is not, invoking a direct similarity between the word or phrase used and the thing described (but in the case of English without the words like or as, which would imply a simile); the word or phrase used in this way; an implied comparison.