Dictionary Entry
usury
usury is a 5-letter English word with 5 senses as transitive verb and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A premium or increase paid, or stipulated to be paid, for a loan, as of money; interest. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 9 · 5 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
A premium or increase paid, or stipulated to be paid, for a loan, as of money; interest.
- 2transitive verb
The practice of taking interest.
- 3transitive verb
Interest in excess of a legal rate charged to a borrower for the use of money.
- 4noun
the act of lending money at an exorbitant rate of interest
- 5noun
an exorbitant or unlawful rate of interest
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