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usance

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Noun
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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun usance has 3 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

usancen. [F. See Use, v. t.].
  •  Use; usage; employment.  Spenser.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Custom; practice; usage.  Gower. Chaucer.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Interest paid for money; usury.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]
  •  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.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

usance, n. the time allowed by commercial usage for the payment of foreign bills of exchange.

Etymology
ME f. OF (as USE)

ROGET THESAURUS

usance

Debt

N debt, obligation, liability, indebtment, debit, score, bill, check, account (credit), arrears, deferred payment, deficit, default, insolvency, bad debt, interest, premium, usance, usury, floating debt, floating capital, debtor, debitor, mortgagor, defaulter, borrower, indebted, liable, chargeable, answerable for, in debt, in embarrassed circumstances, in difficulties, incumbered, involved, involved in debt, plunged in debt, deep in debt, over one's head in debt, over head and ears in debt, deeply involved, fast tied up, insolvent, minus, out of pocket, unpaid, unrequited, unrewarded, owing, due, in arrear, outstanding, past due, aes alienum debitorem leve gravius inimicum facit, neither a borrower nor a lender be.

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