Definition of user
: one that uses
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Examples of user in a Sentence
a person who started out as a user and is now a drug dealer as well
Recent Examples of user from the Web
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During the first week of April — when Fortnite became widely available to all iOS users — players spent $6.4 million while playing Fortnite.
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Lawmakers grilled the Facebook CEO for about 10 hours over the course of two days in a hearing prompted by the exposure of millions of users' data to third parties.
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The growing ranks of crossbow users, and perhaps those who simply support greater choice and flexibility in deer hunting methods, carried the day.
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But Zuckerberg recently announced a range of changes aimed at allowing users to better control or secure their data.
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During the hearing, Zuckerberg apologized many times and government officials asked questions of the 33-year-old's knowledge of the scandal and the company's future plans to protect users' privacy.
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The news of the fake account comes as another blow for Facebook after the company has already been tied up in scandals related the use of users' data.
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After resisting previous calls to testify, Zuckerberg agreed to come to Capitol Hill this month after reports surfaced — and the company confirmed — that Cambridge Analytica had gathered Facebook users' data.
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Then last month, Facebook found itself in the midst of a new firestorm, after reports that Cambridge Analytica, a political data firm, had misused the data of up to 87 million Facebook users, most of them in the United States.
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First Known Use of user
15th century
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Definition of user for English Language Learners
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: a person or thing that uses something
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: a person who frequently uses illegal drugs
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