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Syllable division and stress derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
usufruct is a noun meaning "a legal right to use and derive profit from property belonging to someone else provided that the property itself is not injured in any way". It carries one recorded sense.
a legal right to use and derive profit from property belonging to someone else provided that the property itself is not injured in any way
law
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for usufruct come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.