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usance |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Usance \Us"ance\, n. [F. See {Use}, v. t.] 1. Use usage; employment. [Obs.] --Spenser. 2. Custom; practice; usage. [Obs.] --Gower. Chaucer. 3. Interest paid for money; usury. [Obs.] --Shak. 4. (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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: usance n : (economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing; "the consumption of energy has increased steadily" [syn: {consumption}, {economic consumption}, {use}, {use of goods and services}]
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