单词 | to use |
释义 | > as lemmasto use P15. to use: (of money) subject to fees of interest; at interest. Chiefly in to put a person's money (out) to use: to lend out a person's money at interest. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > financial dealings > moneylending > [adverb] > at interest at, to, on, upon usurya1400 to use1598 upon usea1607 at use1609 on rent1609 1598 E. Guilpin Skialetheia sig. B4 As heresie he shuns all merriment, And turn'd good husband, puts forth sighs to vse. 1632 P. Massinger Emperour of East i. ii. sig. C2v I alas Lende out my labouring braines to vse, and sometimes For a drachma in the pound. 1642 D. Rogers Naaman 158 I would not put my mony to use; but that it is against a Common wealth to keepe it. 1680 R. L'Estrange tr. Erasmus 20 Select Colloquies xviii. 235 They Buy, they Sell; they take to use, they put to use. 1700 J. Astry tr. D. de Saavedra Fajardo Royal Politician II. 149 We read, that Pompey put out his Money to Use. 1738 tr. S. Guazzo Art of Conversat. 43 Two Florentine Brethren, who let out their Money to Use. 1785 R. Cumberland Nat. Son v. 82 You are my own son;—you have put my money out to use already. 1835 N. Webster Instructive & Entertaining Lessons for Youth lxv. 202 He puts his money to use, that is, he buys more land, or stock, or lends his money at interest,—in short, he makes his money produce some profit or income. 1851 Gentleman's Mag. Oct. 366/1 They great-grandfather (though a lawyer), was religious and strict,..scrupled putting his money to use, and was of a sober conversation. 1922 H. Ford Life & Work ii. 40 Thus, the speculative financiers delude themselves that they are putting their money out to use. 1993 H. Hughes Hist. Romance vi. 96 A banker whose fortune has come from putting his wife's money to use is portrayed with approval. < as lemmas |
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