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Main Entry:
usury
[
yoo
-zh
uh
-ree
]
Show IPA
/
ˈyu
ʒə
ri
/
Show Spelled
Part of Speech:
noun
Definition:
lending money at a high interest rate
Synonyms:
exploitation
, stealing
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2012 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Example Sentences
Usury
refers to exorbitant rates of interest, which is hardly the description of the lending environment over the last few years.
Hedge funds have been lumped with payday lenders that charge
usury
rates.
What these credit cards companies do is beyond a doubt
usury
.
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Usury
refers to exorbitant rates of interest, which is hardly the description of the lending environment over the last few years.
Hedge funds have been lumped with payday lenders that charge
usury
rates.
What these credit cards companies do is beyond a doubt
usury
.
Enacting
usury
laws will mean many people will get no credit or low limits, so they will have multiple cards or use pawnshops.
The
usury
laws were the first consumer protection laws.
The rates that climb up well past
usury
and enter the realm of loan-shark territory.
But now the anonymous credit card company charges rates that makes one think that
usury
laws should be in place.
It is time to enforce what used to be called the
usury
laws.
The payment was resisted on the ground of illegal proceedings in discounting the notes, and also on account of
usury
.
Avarice and
usury
and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still.
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