usance   (TTS Sound)

The noun usance has 3 senses

• usance -- (the period of time permitted by commercial usage for the payment of a bill of exchange (especially a foreign bill of exchange))


• consumption, economic consumption, usance, use, use of goods and services -- ((economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing; "the consumption of energy has increased steadily")


• custom, usage, usance -- (accepted or habitual practice)