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Interest paid on borrowed money
Answer for the clue "Interest paid on borrowed money ", 6 letters:
usance
Alternative clues for the word usance
- Shylock's interest
- Proper attitude when time has passed for agreed period of exchange
- Customary bill-payment time
- Country church accepts new time to pay foreign bills
- (economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing
- Benefits of wealth, in economics
- Interest of a sort
- (commerce) the period of time permitted by commercial usage for the payment of a bill of exchange (especially a foreign bill of exchange)
Word definitions for usance in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the period of time permitted by commercial usage for the payment of a bill of exchange (especially a foreign bill of exchange) (economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing; "the consumption of energy has increased ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Usance \Us"ance\, n. [F. See Use , v. t.] Use; usage; employment. [Obs.] --Spenser. Custom; practice; usage. [Obs.] --Gower. Chaucer. Interest paid for money; usury. [Obs.] --Shak. (Com.) The time, fixed variously by the usage between different countries, ...
Usage examples of usance.
Bills well in advance of the expiration of their usance, as this will give the payer more time to make arrangements to deliver the specie.