in use

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Adj.	1.	in use - (of facilities such as telephones or lavatories) unavailable for use by anyone else or indicating unavailability; (`engaged' is a British term for a busy telephone line); "her line is busy"; "receptionists' telephones are always engaged"; "the lavatory is in use"; "kept getting a busy signal" engaged, busy occupied - held or filled or in use; "she keeps her time well occupied"; "the wc is occupied"
	2.	in use - currently being used; "robots are in use throughout industry" used - employed in accomplishing something; "the principle of surprise is the most used and misused of all the principles of war"- H.H.Arnold & I.C.Eaker

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By a current or proper word I mean one which is in general use among a people; by a strange word, one which is in use in another country.

The Poetics of Aristotle by Aristotle View in context

Indeed, the trapper was left to renew the dialogue himself, which he soon did by asking a question, in the indirect manner so much in use by the border inhabitants.

The Prairie by Cooper, James Fenimore View in context

But the artist must employ the symbols in use in his day and nation to convey his enlarged sense to his fellow-men.

Essays, First Series by Emerson, Ralph Waldo View in context

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in vain
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