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Definition of usury noun from the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary

 

usury

 noun
noun
NAmE//ˈyuʒəri//
 
[uncountable] (old-fashioned) (disapproving)
 
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the practice of lending money to people at unfairly high rates of interest
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