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Customary bill-payment time
Answer for the clue "Customary bill-payment time ", 6 letters:
usance
Alternative clues for the word usance
- (economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing
- Benefits of wealth, in economics
- (commerce) the period of time permitted by commercial usage for the payment of a bill of exchange (especially a foreign bill of exchange)
- Interest paid on borrowed money
- Bill-payment period
- Proper attitude when time has passed for agreed period of exchange
- Application: arch
- Accepted or habitual practice
Word definitions for usance in dictionaries
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, ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Usance refers to the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs. In manufacturing, "usance" means "inputs." It is used in "usance bills." This terminology is used in banks in India, when dealing with forex . In medieval banking , "usance" denoted the ...
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.