1) Activity of great interest 2) Asking too much of someone 3) Bad loan 4) Charging too much interest 5) Considerable interest 6) Crime of great interest 7) Cutthroat lending 8) Excess of a kind 9) Excessive interest 10) Exorbitant interest 11) Exorbitant interest charge 12) Exorbitant interest rate
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1) Loansharking 2) Vigorish
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- an exorbitant or unlawful rate of interest
- the act of lending money at an exorbitant rate of interest
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n. a rate of interest on a debt which is exorbitant and in excess of the percentage allowed by law. Each state sets its own maximum interest rate. Courts will not enforce payment of interest on a loan if the rate is usurious, so a loan may result in being interest free. Charging usury as a practice is a crime, usually only charged if a person makes...
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Usury (i) is the practice of making unethical or immoral monetary loans intended to unfairly enrich the lender. A loan may be considered usurious because of excessive or abusive interest rates or other factors, but according to some dictionaries, simply charging any interest at all can be considered usury. Someone who charges usury can be called a...
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Charging a higher interest rate or higher fees than the law allows.
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• (v. t.) A premium or increase paid, or stipulated to be paid, for a loan, as of money; interest. • (v. t.) Interest in excess of a legal rate charged to a borrower for the use of money. • (v. t.) The practice of taking interest.
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in modern law, the practice of charging an illegal rate of interest for the loan of money. In Old English law, the taking of any compensation ... [4 related articles]
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Former term for charging interest on a loan of money. In medieval times, usury was held to be a sin, and Christians were forbidden to lend (although not to borrow). The practice of charging interest...
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Is illegally excessive interest charged on a loan.
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(n) Law prevailing in the land fix the upper interest rate chargeable on debt instruments. If the interest rate charged on a debt exceeds this limit, it is called Usury. Usury payment cannot be enforced by law
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Charging an unacceptably, and sometimes illegally, high rate of interest on a... <a target=_blank href='http://www.finance-glossary.com/terms/usury.htm?id=13064&ginPtrCode=00000&PopupMode=false' title='Read full definition of usury'>more</a>
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The civil or criminal wrong of charging interest that is beyond the legal limit set by a State. The illegal profit which is required and received by the lender of a sum of money from the borrower for its use. In a more extended and improper sense, it is the receipt of any profit whatever for the use of money: it is only in the first of these senses...
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Extending credit at an exorbitant or illegally high interest rate. States set their own maximum interest rates, and courts will not enforce payment of interest on a loan if the rate is usurious. Most credit card issuers are based in states with no usury laws or caps on credit card interest rates.
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n] - an exorbitant or unlawful rate of interest 2. [n] - the act of lending money at an exorbitant rate of interest
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usury 1. The practice of lending money and charging the borrower interest, especially at an exorbitant or illegally high rate. 2. An excessive or illegally high rate of interest charged on borrowed money. 3. The lending of money at exorbitant interest rates; specifically: 'The crime of charging or contracting to charge an unlawfully high rate of ...
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noun an exorbitant or unlawful rate of interest
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noun the act of lending money at an exorbitant rate of interest
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Interest which exceeds the legal rate charged to a borrower for the use of money.
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Former term for charging interest on a loan of money. In medieval times, usury was held to be a sin, and Christians were forbidden to lend (although not to borrow). The practice of charging interest is still regarded as usury in some Muslim countries
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Money lending with exorbitant, often illegally high rates of interest tacked on.
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the lending or practice of lending money at an exorbitant interest. · an exorbitant amount or rate of interest, esp. in excess of the legal rate. · interest paid for the use of money.
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[SAT terms] the act of lending money at an exorbitant rate of interest
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