Full Idea
Brandom develops a particular conception of 'use', according to which a sentence's use is the set of commitments and entitlements associated with public utterance of that sentence.
Gist of Idea
The use of a sentence is its commitments and entitlements
Source
report of Robert B. Brandom (Articulating Reasons: Intro to Inferentialism [2000]) by William Lycan - Philosophy of Language Ch.6
Book Reference
Lycan,William G.: 'Philosophy of Language' [Routledge 2000], p.97
A Reaction
It immediately strikes me that a sentence could only have commitments and entitlements if it already had a meaning. However, the case of money shows how there might be nothing more to a thing's significance than its entitlements.