Usually means: Charging excessive interest on loans.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. usury: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. usury: Merriam-Webster
  3. usury: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. usury: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. usury: Collins English Dictionary
  6. usury: Vocabulary.com
  7. Usury, usury: Wordnik
  8. usury: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. usury: Wiktionary
  10. usury: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. usury: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. usury: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. usury: Dictionary.com
  14. usury: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Usury: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Usury: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. usury: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. usury: Rhymezone
  19. Usury: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. usury: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. usury: FreeDictionary.org
  22. usury: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. usury: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. usury: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. usury: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  3. usury: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary
  4. usury: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  5. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  6. usury: Law.com Dictionary
  7. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  8. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  9. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  10. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  11. Usury: bizterms.net
  12. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  13. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  14. Usury: Investopedia
  15. Usury: INSOLVENCY
  16. usury: Legal dictionary
  17. usury: Financial dictionary
  18. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)
  19. Usury: WashingtonPost.com: Business

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Usury: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. usury: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Political (No longer online)
  2. USURY, USURY, USURY: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words
  3. usury: A Word A Day

Religion (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Usury: Easton Bible
  2. Usury: Catholic Encyclopedia
  3. Postmodern Bible Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Usury: Smith's Bible Dictionary
  5. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)
  6. USURY: Glossary of Biblical English of the Authorised Version of the HOLY BIBLE

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. usury: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (countable) An exorbitant rate of interest, in excess of any legal rates or at least immorally.
noun:  (uncountable) The practice of lending money at such rates.
noun:  (uncountable, religion, archaic or historical) The practice of lending money at interest.
noun:  (uncountable, obsolete) Profit.

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