Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The length of time, established by custom and varying between countries, that is allowed for payment of a foreign bill of exchange.
- noun Use.
- noun Usage; custom.
- noun Interest paid on borrowed money.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Using; use; employment.
- noun Usage; custom.
- noun Premium paid for the use of money loaned; interest.
- noun The time which is allowed by custom or usage for the payment of bills of exchange drawn on a distant country.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Use; usage; employment.
- noun obsolete Custom; practice; usage.
- noun obsolete Interest paid for money; usury.
- noun (Com.) The time, fixed variously by the usage between different countries, when a bill of exchange is payable.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The length of time permitted for the payment of a bill of exchange.
- noun
Use . - noun
Customary orhabitual usage . - noun The
interest payed on a borrowed sum,usury .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun accepted or habitual practice
- noun (economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing
- noun the period of time permitted by commercial usage for the payment of a bill of exchange (especially a foreign bill of exchange)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Everything in it, tolerable or intolerable, will have but one use; and that use what our ancestors used to call usance or usury.
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This double usance from London to Paris through Amsterdam gives four months—and we pay here to Robert Morris the value of the livres payable in Paris on the day when the bills are payable by you in London respectively, this gives at least seven months.
Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010
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This double usance from London to Paris through Amsterdam gives four months—and we pay here to Robert Morris the value of the livres payable in Paris on the day when the bills are payable by you in London respectively, this gives at least seven months.
Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010
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Yet this bounty the while, these gifts ancestral of usance
Poems and Fragments 2006
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Yet this bounty the while, these gifts ancestral of usance
Poems and Fragments 2006
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So God me help, said Palomides, this is a shameful custom, and a villainous usance for a queen to use, and namely to make such war upon her own lord, that is called the
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The busy and sagacious bees fixed their republic in the clefts of the rocks and hollows of the trees, offering without usance the plenteous produce of their fragrant toil to every hand.
Don Quixote 2002
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Yet this bounty the while, these gifts ancestral of usance
The Poems and Fragments of Catullus Gaius Valerius Catullus
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When the steed recovered, bold Siegfried took on a frightful usance in the fray.
The Nibelungenlied Daniel Bussier Shumway
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That bread cast upon the waters — "'dough' put out at usance," as Joseph Jefferson used to phrase it — shall return after many days has been I dare say discovered by most persons who have perpetrated acts of kindness, conscious or unconscious.
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