Hypertext Webster Gateway: "usance"
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) 1.7 (wn)
usance
n 1: (commerce) the period of time permitted by commercial usage
for the payment of a bill of exchange (especially a
foreign bill of exchange)
2: (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}]
3: accepted or habitual practice [syn: {custom}, {usage}]
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