ordinary usage
How things normally go
Ordinary usage refers to the normal, everyday way a word or phrase is understood and employed, as opposed to technical, legal, or specialized meanings.
Courts often interpret contracts according to their ordinary usage rather than industry jargon.
The phrase distinguishes common understanding from expert or domain-specific interpretation.
- everydayOccurring each day
- day to dayOccurring each morning
- commonWidespread and unremarkable
- normalConforming to standard
- routineRegular sequence of actions
standard · run of the mill · typical · garden variety · mundane · regular · habitual · customary · plain · plain vanilla · commonplace · unremarkable · nothing special · average · daily · same old · familiar · conventional
ordinary, ordinarily, ordinariness, extraordinarily, extraordinary, ordinal, ordinate, order, orders