Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or character of being useful; conduciveness to some end; utility; serviceableness; advantage.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being useful; utility; serviceableness; advantage.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun the quality of being useful, to which
extent something isuseful
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the quality of being of practical use
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Examples
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Well enjoy the perks while you can because Palin will throw you under the tractor trailer wheels as soon as your usefulness is all used up.
Latest ethics complaints should be 'a wake-up call,' Palin says 2009
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"The U.S. will have to find a balance between their immediate needs and the long-term usefulness of their actions," says Mr. Haqqani.
A Hostage in Pakistan Mira Sethi 2012
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Their usefulness is so obvious that some soldiers here go on foot patrol with them loosely placed on each limb, ready to be tightened.
U.S. military medics use old and new techniques to save wounded in Afghanistan David Brown 2010
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If the truth of a scientific theory, or even its usefulness, is to be judged by its predictive abilities, what are we to make of the predictions made by Hansen before Congress some 20 years ago, when we compare them with the actual measurements of the past twenty years?
October 23rd, 2009 m_francis 2009
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Their usefulness is so obvious that some soldiers here go on foot patrol with them loosely placed on each limb, ready to be tightened.
U.S. military medics use old and new techniques to save wounded in Afghanistan David Brown 2010
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EnterRustic Fruit Desserts, a collaboration between James Beard winner Cory Schreiber and Portland baker Julie Richardson, a book whose usefulness is clear straight from the introduction, where the authors describe each pastry-fruit iteration.
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Their usefulness is so obvious that some soldiers here go on foot patrol with them loosely placed on each limb, ready to be tightened.
U.S. military medics use old and new techniques to save wounded in Afghanistan David Brown 2010
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EnterRustic Fruit Desserts, a collaboration between James Beard winner Cory Schreiber and Portland baker Julie Richardson, a book whose usefulness is clear straight from the introduction, where the authors describe each pastry-fruit iteration.
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Their usefulness is so obvious that some soldiers here go on foot patrol with them loosely placed on each limb, ready to be tightened.
U.S. military medics use old and new techniques to save wounded in Afghanistan David Brown 2010
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Its usefulness is limited, though, as it can't tell you when your payment arrive until about a week before they send out the check.
bilby commented on the word usefulness
Where's my camera?!
Oh damn, too late.
October 26, 2008