Korean/Words/우수리

우수리



 * Synonyms
 * 이자 (ija, "interest" for Sense 2.)


 * Comparatives
 * usury #English

"The most hated sort, and with the greatest reason, is usury, which makes a gain out of money itself, and not from the natural object of it. For money was intended to be used in exchange, but not to increase at interest."
 * An exorbitant rate of interest, in excess of any legal rates or at least immorally.
 * The practice of lending money at such rates.
 * (archaic) The practice of lending money at interest.
 * Aristotle, Politics, Book I, Part X.