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What does usury mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word usury? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. (countable) An exorbitant rate of interest, in excess of any legal rates or at least immorally.
  2. (uncountable) The practice of lending money at such rates.
  3. (uncountable, archaic) The practice of lending money at interest.
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Any future credits and moneys loaned will be loaned at a rate of seven percent usury.
As Mongolian incomes tended to be seasonal there was ample opportunity for usury.
The loan scheme is in fact a case of state-sponsored usury, carried out at the expense of young people.
The usurer will go on hanging the cozener as long as we have a society based, in part, on usury.
The superpower of the ancient world was influenced both by God and by the demons of materialism, violence, self-love, fraud, and usury.
Fighting against usury and the persecution of debtors has a long religious history as well as a social justice lineage.

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