单词 | usury |
释义 | usury (once / 3033 pages) n Usury means lending money at exorbitant interest rates. Credit-card companies charging annual interest rates of 29% are guilty of usury, as far as I'm concerned. A good way to remember the meaning of usury is that you can hear the word use in there. Think of charging too much interest as a way of "using" someone. The sad thing about high interest is that it's always the people who can least afford it who are charged rates so high that it amounts to usury. In the old days, if someone was found guilty of usury, they'd be flogged in the town square. Too bad the credit-card companies can't be dragged out of their holes, because they'd surely get a similar beating. WORD FAMILYusury: usuries, usurious+/usurious: usuriously USAGE EXAMPLESPensioner Mr. Lacriola learned that lesson the hard way as he kept losing and eventually turned to a usury racket for funds to play. Wall Street Journal(Nov 11, 2016) That’s why other states’ usury laws don’t apply, and why interest rates can soar without warning. Los Angeles Times(Nov 10, 2016) That 36 percent figure is also in line with the statutory cap for loans to active-duty military personnel and some state usury laws. New York Times(Oct 20, 2016) 1n the act of lending money at an exorbitant rate of interest Hyper lending, loaning disposing of money or property with the expectation that the same thing (or an equivalent) will be returned 2n an exorbitant or unlawful rate of interest Syn|Hyper vigorish interest rate, rate of interest the percentage of a sum of money charged for its use |
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