Life is hard for us women.usus /əs, s; strong ʌs/ ●●● S1 W1 pronoun 
Please help us. He arranged for us all to have a drink. She’s invited us both. My mother is coming to stay with us. Send us a donation now.us women/men/teachers etc Life is hard for us women.2people in general: Global warming will affect all of us.3 British English spoken used instead of ‘me’. Many people think this use is incorrect: Give us a kiss.
WORD ORIGINus
Origin:
Old EnglishEXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Do you want to go with us to the fair?
- Kate told us she was getting a new car.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY Life is hard for us women.COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES He gave us quite a shock.
Life is hard for us women. (=used when thinking about a possible event or situation and its possible results) Let us assume for a moment that we could indeed fire her. Should we?
Let us assume for a moment that we could indeed fire her. Should we? He gave us quite a shock. (=used to encourage someone else to think about a possibility)· Let us imagine that you are an employer who wants to recruit some new staff.
(=all of you, them, or us) Shut up, the lot of you!
Shut up, the lot of you!PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► do me/us a favour!► God help us► God help us► somebody has decided to honour us with their presence
1[the object form of ‘we’] used by the person speaking or writing to refer to himself or herself and one or more other people: - "I'd like to work in Hawaii." "That makes two of us."
- Well, that makes two of us, Hilary thought with a little smile as she sat at the table.
- You can trust him - he's one of us.
- But tomorrow any one of us could be dead.
- Every one of us has prejudices of some kind in varying degrees.
- He let them win, and every one of us watching the game knows it.
- If one of us goes through menopause, we all suffer a collective hot flash.
- If one of us hits the half-century mark, we all do.
- If our intuitions differ, one of us at least is wrong, but we may be unable to find out which.
- To start with, neither one of us could fly.
- Who is he, to be provoked by one of us?
- Well, that makes two of us, Hilary thought with a little smile as she sat at the table.
Please help us. He arranged for us all to have a drink. She’s invited us both. My mother is coming to stay with us. Send us a donation now.us women/men/teachers etc Life is hard for us women.2people in general: Global warming will affect all of us.3 British English spoken used instead of ‘me’. Many people think this use is incorrect: Give us a kiss.