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The UCC defines usage of trade as 'any practice or method of dealing having such regularity of observance in a place, vocation or trade as to justify an expectation that it will be observed with respect to the transaction in question.' Id. § 490:1-205(2). Courts understand the use of the word 'or' to mean that parties can be bound by a usage common to the place they are in business, even if it is not the usage of their particular vocation or trade. That reading is borne out by the repetition of the disjunctive 'or' in subsection 3, which provides that usages 'in the ...