Definition of Usance

Us´ance
n.1.Use; usage; employment.
2.Custom; practice; usage.
3.Interest paid for money; usury.
4.(Com.) The time, fixed variously by the usage between different countries, when a bill of exchange is payable; as, a bill drawn on London at one usance, or at double usance.


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commerce, commercialism, mercantilism, period, period of time, time period


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