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One who uses or makes use of something, a consumer/client or an express or implied licensee (free user) or a trespasser.
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A person who uses drugs, especially illegal drugs.
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A person who uses a computer or a computing network, especially a person who has received a user account.
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An exploiter, an abuser (a person who "uses" people, that is treats and regards people unfairly, selfishly and/or unethically).
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In land law, meaning either 1. or 2. above or use. Usually in singular form to mean use wherever there is assiduous re-use of precedents and aloof textbooks verbatim. Modern law, guarded against ambiguity, widely disfavors the term.