词汇 | usury |
释义 | usury noun[ U ] formaldisapprovinguk /ˈjuː.ʒər.i/ us /ˈjuː.ʒɚ.i/ the activity of lending someone money with the agreement that they will pay back a very much larger amount of money later放高利贷 Borrowing & lending amortizable amortization amortize bond measure bond referendum bonded bridging loan credit limit debt get behind hole loan microcredit microloan non-current non-interest non-prime outstanding use something as collateral write something off Related wordsusurer usurious usury | Business Englishusury noun[ U ] formaldisapprovinguk /ˈjuːzjʊri/ us /-ʒɚI/ the lending of money at extremely high interest rates: The payday loans, exempt from usury laws, carry an annual interest rate of 390%. usurernoun[ C ]uk /ˈjuːzjʊrər/ us /-ʒɚə˞/ a usurer who charged extortionate rates of interest usuriousadjectiveuk /juːˈzjʊəriəs/ us /juːˈʒʊri-/ a usurious rate Examples of usuryusury Because of usury laws, no estimate of free-market interest rates has been available since 1979. Inquisitors may well have seen heretics as particularly prone to the sins of avarice and usury. Many readers will be left wondering how exactly usury gradually shed its sinful associations and, in the guise of moderate interest-taking, began keeping respectable company. In such a setting, it is understandable that most loans at interest were related to emergencies or consumer crises and usury was morally suspect. Medieval moralists scorned any form of profit as "usury," seeing it as unjust exchange. The first big capital funds in circulation accumulated through banking and usury, before they could be used in the sphere of production. There are links here with penances for avarice or usury. I am very conscious about how many parliamentarians shy away from opposition to usury because it is so embedded in our system. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is also the persistence of usury on what is regarded as a universal scale. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 No harm can be done to anybody except the person who wishes to disguise the rate of usury. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is some sort of psychological limit to the amount of usury that a person is prepared to pay. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am a bit tired of this usury that is practised on the local authorities all the time. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I protest against this usury, however petty it may be. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It was very fascinating to go into the theology of usury. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In fact the manual is advising people on income support to rely on usury. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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