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say it: YOO-zhur-ee
usury is a noun meaning "an exorbitant or unlawful rate of interest". It carries 2 recorded senses.
an exorbitant or unlawful rate of interest
the act of lending money at an exorbitant rate of interest
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 usury come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.