usance

Other forms of usance

plural

usances·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about usance

What does usance mean?

usance means "the period of time permitted by commercial usage for the payment of a bill of exchange (especially a foreign bill of exchange)". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in usance?

usance has 2 syllables: u-sance. The stress falls on "u".

What is another word for usance?

Close synonyms include consumption, economic consumption, use, use of goods and services, custom. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is usance a common word?

usance is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.