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Meanings of usury in английском
Synonyms
Examples for "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-itspercentage.
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.
Usage of usury in английском
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,-suchare 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.
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