(Economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing.
Accepted or habitual practice.
1Hashtag my usance, I don't know what that means either.
2When the steed recovered, bold Siegfried took on a frightful usance in the fray.
3They have suffered this to become usance also.
4He knew that a debt to folly bears no grace, and was ready with his principal and usance.
5He it was who prepared their bonds and contracts, and placed out their ill-gotten gains at exorbitant usance.
6But 'tis to much purpose to evade it; the common custom and usance of life will have it so.
7For its usance I send a package of a new herb from the Chesapeake, called by the natives tobacco.
8And two usance is two months; reckoning not from the acceptance of the bill, but from the date of it.
9Everything in it, tolerable or intolerable, will have but one use; and that use what our ancestors used to call usance or usury.
10Be warned that unless the 8 shillings and the usance thereof be forthcoming, the town-crier shall notify the sale of the sundry articles named.
11Whereupon, after certain fowls had sung a roundel, "as was always the usance," the assembly, like some human Parliaments, breaks up with shouting;
12Usance from Genoa to Rome is payable at Rome ten days after sight.
13Usance from Antwerp or Amsterdam, payable at Venice, is two months, payable in bank.
14Usance between Antwerp and Genoa, Naples or Messina, is two months, whether to or from.
15Usance from London to Seville, is two months; as likewise between London and Lisbon, and Oporto, to or from.
16Usance payable at Florence or Leghorn, is two months; but from thence payable at London, usance is three months.