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An exorbitant or unlawful rate of interest.
vigorish
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usura
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Examples for "
vigorish
"
vigorish
Examples for "
vigorish
"
1
Big gambling layouts know within minutes if a table is not making its
vigorish
.
2
Once in a while it gives you a little more
vigorish
than the other guy has, that's all.
3
That's its
vigorish
-
its
percentage
.
4
That slim advantage, which is known as the
vigorish
,
or the vig, is all the bookie has going for him... .
5
One word from Johnny about an executive with
vigorish
problems was all that was needed for the gang to offer their lending services.
1
Or consider the attitude of the Church in the matter of
usury
.
2
This was popular with the public because of the abuses of
usury
.
3
The word
usury
was very odious to the Christian mind and conscience.
4
Thou art become a man of substance; and hast moneys at
usury
.
5
The one wrote a Jeremiad about
usury
,
and was called Jeremy Bentham.
6
Such is Time's
usury
;
and all who cannot wait are its victims.
7
Therefore it is not a sin to take
usury
for lending money.
8
A crafty person who preys upon others through
usury
,
extortion or trickery.
9
Strategy, violence, and
usury
,
-
such
are
the proprietor's methods of plundering the laborer.
10
You have forbidden alcohol, drugs, smoking, betting, and
usury
,
games, trade, servants.
11
What is the unlawful profit for money, which may be called
usury
?
12
In pre-capitalist Europe Christians were prohibited from
usury
-lending money for interest.
13
The
usury
in the market is no longer to be endured.
14
And the plague of
usury
raged with equal violence in city and country.
15
There is nothing wrong with it. Islam bans lending on interest as
usury
.
16
The accretions are the irresistible result of the principle of
usury
.
usury
take usury
call usury
forbidden usury
exact usury
lend upon usury
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