Usually means: Charging excessive interest on loans.
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  1. usuries: Merriam-Webster
  2. usuries: Collins English Dictionary
  3. usuries: Vocabulary.com
  4. usuries: Wordnik
  5. usuries: Wiktionary
  6. usuries: Dictionary.com
  7. usuries: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. usuries: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. usuries: Legal dictionary
  3. usuries: Financial dictionary

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  1. usuries: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (usury)

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.
▸ Also see usury


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