Used Meaning
/juːzd/Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
verbsimple past and past participle of use
verbIn used to.
Sentence Examples
We men are used to waiting for the women.
You will soon get used to speaking in public.
I'm not used to eating so much at lunchtime.
CEFR Practice Quiz
He prefers to buy ____ furniture because it is cheaper than new.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
He bought a ____ car from a local dealer because he wanted to save some money for his summer trip today.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English used, equivalent to use + -ed.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"In 1866 Colonel J. F. Meline noted that the rebozo had almost disappeared in Santa Fe and that hoop skirts, on sale in the stores, were being widely used."
— 1948, Carey McWilliams, North from Mexico / The Spanish-Speaking People of The United States, J. B. Lippincott Company, page 75:
"Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month."
— 2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
He prefers to buy ____ furniture because it is cheaper than new.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
He bought a ____ car from a local dealer because he wanted to save some money for his summer trip today.