usury

loans with unfairly high interest rate
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usury

Summary

usury has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[1]

Key Facts

  • usury is a type of predatory lending[2].
  • usury is a type of interest[3].
  • usury is a type of price gouging[4].
  • usury is a type of Q20918629[5].
  • usury is part of white-collar crime[6].
  • usury's Commons category is recorded as Usury[7].
  • usury's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Usury[8].
  • usury's described by source is recorded as Otto's encyclopedia[9].
  • usury's described by source is recorded as Lean Logic[10].
  • usury's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[11].
  • usury's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[12].
  • usury's described by source is recorded as Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron[13].
  • usury's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[14].
  • usury's has characteristic is recorded as evil[15].
  • usury's has characteristic is recorded as avarice[16].
  • usury's has characteristic is recorded as abuse[17].
  • usury's practiced by is recorded as loan shark[18].

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Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include predatory lending[2], interest[3], price gouging[4], and Q20918629[5].

Use and Application

usury is part of white-collar crime[6].

Why It Matters

usury has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[1] usury is known by 26 alternative names across languages and contexts.[19]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  17. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  2. [19] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 10w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-07-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → usury
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P13772]]: usury, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289966470|usury (#289966470)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix'n'match"
  2. 10w ago · Pierrotrgr · 2026-07-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Biblissima authority id → Q295751
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P11493]]: Q295751, Import ID Biblissima V3 ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/OR/627d4912166|details]])"
  3. 10w ago · OBender12 · 2026-07-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Jewish encyclopedia id → 14615
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P8590]]: 14615, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/167485298|USURY (#167485298)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/6351|Jewish Encyclopedia]] #mix'n"
  4. 12w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 2D1sPR
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  5. 16w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0258807-lichva
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P9322]]: 0258807-lichva, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259493|batch #259493]]"
  6. 18w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-05-29 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Described by source → Otto's encyclopedia, Lean Logic, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary +3
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/33786|batch #33786]]: Remove redundant described by source (P1343) - ID P14483 is present."
  7. 18w ago · XeNivalys · 2026-05-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14483 → u/usura-pecado
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P14483]]: u/usura-pecado, #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1779859433286"
  8. 19w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Practiced by → loan shark
    Part of → white-collar crime
    Part of → —
    Subclass of → —
    + 5 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|3 */ [[Property:P8189]]: 987007529643705171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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