Synonym: vigorish. Similar words: as usual, unusual, jury, bury, injury, penury, century, sure. Meaning: ['juːʒərɪ] 
n. 1. an exorbitant or unlawful rate of interest 2. the act of lending money at an exorbitant rate of interest.
n. 1. an exorbitant or unlawful rate of interest 2. the act of lending money at an exorbitant rate of interest. 
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1. He used to practise usury frequently.
2. The interest of usury is unfairly high.
3. They lend out money on usury.
4. This was because of the element of usury involved.
5. He realises that Access make money through usury, yet he felt that 25 percent a month was going the pace a bit.
6. But what about the cant of usury and the mode of treating that he ought to know?
7. The church condemns usury and the loaning of money at high interest.
8. In spite of ecclesiastical prohibitions on usury, the Lancastrians and their predecessors had certainly borrowed at interest, often surreptitiously.
9. First, usury is not intrinsically wrong in the way that murder, adultery or theft are wrong.
10. These recommendations go far beyond the stale usury debates.
11. Usury is interest in excess of a legal rate.
12. In commerce and usury field[sentencedict.com], Jew is more activity.
13. He made money by practicing usury.
14. He returned her love and devotion with usury.
15. Usury laws only makethings worse, and injure free and productive credit.
16. Usury is condemned as payment for the use of money which has no use value.
17. Thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury, nor lend him thy victuals for increase.
18. In medieval times, it was illegal for Christians to practise usury.
19. Set up last century by charitable foundations to support local cultural activities and to combat usury, they have become big business.
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20. In addition to the tithing system and the gleaning laws, redistribution is also achieved through regulating the capital market by prohibiting usury.
21. If the biblical fates go against him, Herluin will take all the vexation and shame out on Tutilo, with usury.
22. A charge against him by the Privy Seal for usury was apparently avoided by means of a ￡12,000 bribe.
23. Perhaps the tip-off on applying the Garrison insight is the common attitude of Smith and the physiocrats on usury laws.
24. The purpose however, was the same - tax collection, usury, local political control.
25. In short, hainan should take new-style industrialized way sturdily, the benign development mode of implementation usury ability, cost-effective, feebleminded bad news, low pollution.
26. This semislave type of tenancy was inseparable from the system of usury practiced in China.
27. The industry thrives, in large part, because it operates mostly outside state usury laws that prohibit excessive interest rates.
28. Only by aiding the farmers to get rich, enhancing the service of finance in the countryside and promoting laws and rules in the countryside can the farmers resist exorbitant usury consciously.
29. The interest rate is a core factor of the village usurious loan through which we can reveal many related questions about the usury.
30. However, as the cooperative society was controlled by the rich and despotic gentries, the agricultural loan did not prevent the usury effectively.