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noun

Usance n.

Use; usage; employment. (Obs.)

Custom; practice; usage. (Obs.)

Interest paid for money; usury. (Obs.)

(Com.) 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.

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Etymology of 'Usance'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Usance" Quotes from Famous Books

... holds that speech Was given us to prose and preach, And not for lighter usance, Straight should be sent to Coventry; Or omnium concensu, be ...

— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, No. 335 - Vol. 12, No. 335, October 11, 1828 • Various

... his old age! And so no one ever sought for the solution of the mystery in the deep dejection of Ram Lal Singh, who vainly mourned for his lost jewels and money. Fear tied his hands, and his tongue was palsied by guilt. He vindictively, however, raised his customary "rate of usance," and swore in his own hardened heart that the needy borrowers of Delhi should recoup him fully before a year. The one Star gleaming in the dark night of financial blackness was the vengeance upon the man who had tricked and despoiled ...

— A Fascinating Traitor • Richard Henry Savage

Words linked to "Usance" : commercialism, ritual, Germanism, consumption, custom, commerce, mercantilism, time period, couvade, economics, economic consumption, practice, Americanism, Anglicism, use, consuetude, demand