Usually means: Applications or purposes something serves.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. USES, USES, uses: Merriam-Webster
  2. USES: Collins English Dictionary
  3. uses: Vocabulary.com
  4. Uses, use's, uses: Wordnik
  5. uses: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. uses: Wiktionary
  7. USES: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. USES, u.s.e.s: Dictionary.com
  9. Uses: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. USES: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  11. uses: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. uses: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. uses: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. uses: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. uses: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. USES: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. uses: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (USES)

▸ noun:  (law) 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.
▸ noun:  Initialism of United States Employment Service.

Similar:
utilise, manipulation, consumption, utilisation, usance, usage, function, purpose, expend, habit, more...

Opposite:
neglects, ignores, wastes, discards, misuses

Types:
recreational, medicinal, industrial, agricultural, educational, therapeutic, cosmetic, culinary, more...

Phrases:
uses up, statute of uses, ill uses, had uses, has uses, more...

Adjectives:
other, many, different, various, industrial, possible, alternative, important, therapeutic, practical, potential



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Similar:
utilise, manipulation, consumption, utilisation, usance, usage, function, purpose, expend, habit, more...

Opposite:
neglects, ignores, wastes, discards, misuses

Types:
recreational, medicinal, industrial, agricultural, educational, therapeutic, cosmetic, culinary, more...

Phrases:
uses up, statute of uses, ill uses, had uses, has uses, have uses, having uses, uses name, different uses for same term, uses a sledgehammer to crack a nut, anticoagulants-categories & uses, more...

Adjectives:
other, many, different, various, industrial, possible, alternative, important, therapeutic, practical, potential



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