Usance

Definition: Usance

Usance

Noun

1. (commerce) the period of time permitted by commercial usage for the payment of a bill of exchange (especially a foreign bill of exchange).

2. (economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing; "the consumption of energy has increased steadily".

3. Accepted or habitual practice.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "usance" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Etymology: Usance \Us"ance\, noun. [French expression See Use, transitive verb]. (Websters 1913)

Business

Economics

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Usance

Debt

Interest; premium; usance, usury; floating debt, floating capital.

Crosswords: Usance

Dutch (custom, habit, way), German (custom, practice, usage).

Trade

Korea

Limitations on the use of deferred payment terms for imports, D/A and usance L/Cs were abolished in July 1998. (references)

Korea

D/A and usance LCs are forms of extended credit in which the importer makes no payment for the goods until the date called for in the credit; however, the importer may clear the goods from customs prior to payment. (references)

Korea

There are three documentary practices in settling Korea's imports: (1) sight and usance Letters of Credit, (2) Documents against Acceptance (D/A) and Documents against Payment (D/P); and, (3) Open Account Transactions. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Danish

datoveksel (after date bill, after-sight bill, draft with usance, term bill, time bill), a dato veksel (after date bill, after-sight bill, draft with usance, term bill, time bill). (various references)

Dutch

datowissel (after date bill, after-sight bill, draft with usance, term bill, time bill). (various references)

Farsi 

مهلت (Break, Respite, Space, Vacation), مدت (Duration, Interval, Length, Life, Outage, Patch, Period, Stretch, Term, Time, Tract), سودسرمایه , سررسید (Maturity), عرف (Custom, Institution, Tradition, Unwrittenlaw, Ure, Usage), ربح پول . (various references)

French

durée, échéance. (various references)

German

Wechselfrist. (various references)

Greek 

προθεσμία πληρωμήσ, προθεσμία (term, time limit), χρονική περίοδος ισχύος συναλλαγματικής (currency, duration, life, maturity, period to maturity, term), εισόδημα από χρήση, τόκοσ (interest), διάρκεια (continuation, duration, length, period, standing). (various references)

Italian

durata (duration, endurance, lease, length, life, span, standing, wear). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

ユーコン准州 (eugenics, eunos, euphemism, European television satellite, Eutelsat, euthanasia, euthanasie, humor, submarine, U-boat, UFO, ufology, unidentified flying object, usance bill, used car, user, user interface, user-friendly, users, utility, utility program, utility room, utopia, U-turn, youth, youth hostel, youth market, Yugoslavia, Yukon Territory). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ユーザンス . (various references)

Manx

traa eeck. (various references)

Pig Latin

anceusay

Portuguese

efeito ou letra a prazo fixo (after date bill, after-sight bill, draft with usance, term bill, time bill). (various references)

Romanian

uzanţã (consuetude, custom, usage). (various references)

Spanish

vencimiento (defeat, end, expiration, expiry, matureness, maturity, terminate). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "usance": usances. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: uncase.

-1 letter: acnes, canes, cause, sauce, scena, usnea.

-2 letters: aces, acne, anes, anus, cane, cans, case, cues, ecus, sane, scan.

-3 letters: ace, ane, can, cue, eau, ecu, ens, nae, nus, sac, sae, sau, sea, sec, sen, sue, sun, uns, use.

-4 letters: ae, an, as, en, es, na, ne, nu, un, us.

+1 letter: acumens, cangues, censual, jaunces, lacunes, launces, nuances, nutcase, uncages, uncakes, uncased, uncases, unlaces, usances, usaunce.

+2 letters: abducens, centaurs, cleanups, durances, eucaines, furnaces, haunches, issuance, lacunose, launches, lucarnes, lunacies, nacreous, nautches, nuclease, nuisance, nutcases, paunches, raunches, recusant, saucepan, scalenus, unbraces, uncashed, uncasked, uncaused, unchaste, uncrates, unifaces, unscaled, usaunces.

+3 letters: acutances, acuteness, anacruses, announces, assurance, audiences, buckbeans, buoyances, calcaneus, calumnies, cancerous, cankerous, canulates, caruncles, cavernous, ceanothus, ceruleans, chanteuse, chaunters, consulate, cotqueans, courantes, courtesan, cousinage, craunches, curarines, cutaneous, dulcineas, dumbcanes, encapsule, encaustic, eulachans, eulachons, evacuants, guidances, incubates, insurance, issuances, jaundices, larcenous, launchers, manicures, masculine, muscadine, muscarine, nectarous, nucleases, nucleates, nuisances, oceanauts, outdances, outrances, picayunes, piquances, puissance, pursuance, recusancy, recusants, saucepans, sauciness, schnauzer, spleuchan, staunched, stauncher, staunches, subagency, subdeacon, subjacent, substance, succinate, sugarcane, tenacious, transduce, truancies, truncates, tunicates, unceasing, uncharges, unclasped, uncreates, underacts, unlatches, unpackers, unscarred, unscathed, unshackle, unstacked, unteaches, vinaceous, vulcanise.