use-moneyn.
/ˈjuːsˌmʌni/, U.S. /ˈjusˌməni/ Now English regional.
= interest n. 10. Also figurative.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > profit > [noun] > return from capital or investment > interest
interest1545
advantage1600
use-money1605
rente1825
1605 R. Mason Reasons Academie 86 He doth not then allow the Borrower his full rate of time: and therefore of a consequent, hee ought to abate it out of the rate of his vse mony.
a1632 T. Middleton & J. Webster Any Thing for Quiet Life (1662) i. sig. B4v Never did any man thrive that purchast with use-mony.
1656 J. Trapp Comm. Matt. (ed. 2) v. 26 All that wicked men suffer here is but a paying the use-money required for that dreadful debt, that must be paid at last.
1700 T. Brown Amusem. Serious & Comical iii. 29 There Sneaks a Hunger-starv'd Usurer in quest of a Crasie Citizen for Use and Continuance-Money.
1737 W. Whiston in tr. Josephus Genuine Wks. 583 (note) The Attick quantity of use money..was the eighth part of the original sum.
1874 T. Hardy Far from Madding Crowd I. viii. 88 When the use-money is gied away to the second-best poor folk.
1901 Social Gospel Feb. 32/1 He believes in the righteousness of the Old Testament prohibition of use-money.
1928 A. E. Pease Dict. Dial. N. Riding Yorks. 147/2 Usemoney, usury, interest on money lent.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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