USANCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does usance mean? 

• USANCE (noun)
  The noun USANCE has 3 senses:

1. the period of time permitted by commercial usage for the payment of a bill of exchange (especially a foreign bill of exchange)

2. (economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing

3. accepted or habitual practice

  Familiarity information: USANCE used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• USANCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The period of time permitted by commercial usage for the payment of a bill of exchange (especially a foreign bill of exchange)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Hypernyms ("usance" is a kind of...):

period; period of time; time period (an amount of time)

Domain category:

commerce; commercialism; mercantilism (transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services))

Sense 2

Meaning:

(economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Synonyms:

consumption; economic consumption; usance; use; use of goods and services

Context example:

the consumption of energy has increased steadily

Hypernyms ("usance" is a kind of...):

demand (the ability and desire to purchase goods and services)

Domain category:

economic science; economics; political economy (the branch of social science that deals with the production and distribution and consumption of goods and services and their management)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "usance"):

conspicuous consumption (buying expensive services and products in order to flaunt your wealth)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Accepted or habitual practice

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

custom; usage; usance

Hypernyms ("usance" is a kind of...):

pattern; practice (a customary way of operation or behavior)

survival (something that survives)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "usance"):

Americanism (a custom that is peculiar to the United States or its citizens)

Anglicism; Britishism (a custom that is peculiar to England or its citizens)

consuetude (a custom or usage that has acquired the force of law)

couvade (a custom among some peoples whereby the husband of a pregnant wife is put to bed at the time of bearing the child)

Germanism (a custom that is peculiar to Germany or its citizens)

habit; use ((psychology) an automatic pattern of behavior in reaction to a specific situation; may be inherited or acquired through frequent repetition)

hijab (the custom in some Islamic societies of women dressing modestly outside the home)

rite; ritual (any customary observance or practice)

Derivation:

use (avail oneself to)