Concept cluster: Negative qualities > Usury
v
(intransitive, chiefly UK) To appear implausible or unbelievable.
adj
Favouring increasing interest rates; inclined towards increasing interest rates.
n
(Now chiefly dialectal) Interest on money; usury; increase.
n
A person who has risen, climbed up, or has been promoted to a higher social class, especially through acquisition of wealth, privileges, or political authority but has not gained social acceptance by those within that new class.
n
(Muslim finance): interest or usury, which is haram (sinful) according to sharia law.
adj
(obsolete, rare) Subsisting on alms or charitable contributions.
adj
Alternative form of usurary [(obsolete) Usurious.]
adj
(obsolete) Usurious.
n
A person who loans money to others and charges interest, particularly at an illegal, exorbitant, or unfair rate.
adj
Pertaining to or constituting usury.
n
The practice of usury
adj
Of or pertaining to usury.
adj
Alternative form of usurious [Of or pertaining to usury.]
n
(countable) An exorbitant rate of interest, in excess of any legal rates or at least immorally.
n
(uncountable, slang) The interest on a loan of money, especially for loans made by a usurer or loan shark.

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