Dictionary Entry
usance
usance is a 6-letter English word with 7 senses as transitive verb and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Use; usage; employment. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 11 · 7 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
Use; usage; employment.
- 2transitive verb
Custom; practice; usage.
- 3transitive verb
Interest paid for money; usury.
- 4transitive verb
The time, fixed variously by the usage between different countries, when a bill of exchange is payable; as, a bill drawn on London at one usance, or at double usance.
- 5noun
accepted or habitual practice
- 6noun
(economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing
"the consumption of energy has increased steadily"
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- 7noun
the period of time permitted by commercial usage for the payment of a bill of exchange (especially a foreign bill of exchange)
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