usure

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from French usure.

Verb

usure (third-person singular simple present usures, present participle usuring, simple past and past participle usured)

  1. (intransitive, obsolete) To commit usury.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “usure”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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French

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Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Latin ūsūra.

Noun

usure f (usually uncountable, plural usures)

  1. (finance) usury
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Etymology 2

From user +‎ -ure.

Noun

usure f (uncountable)

  1. wear and tear, wear
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Italian

Noun

usure f

  1. plural of usura

Latin

Participle

ūsūre

  1. vocative masculine singular of ūsūrus

Middle English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old French usure, from Latin ūsūra.

Noun

usure (plural usures)

  1. To lend money in order to make interest; usury.
  2. Interest on a loan.
  3. A loan.

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