Term: usury: the act of lending money at an exorbitant rate of interest
Candidate hypernym: lending: disposing of money or property with the expectation that the same thing (or an equivalent) will be returned → 1
Candidate hypernym: overtone: a harmonic with a frequency that is a multiple of the fundamental frequency → 0
Candidate hypernym: center stage: a position of prominence or importance → 0
Candidate hypernym: pogrom: organized persecution of an ethnic group (especially Jews) → 0
Candidate hypernym: phyllodoce: small genus of evergreen Arctic and alpine shrubs → 0
Candidate hypernym: rhinoceros beetle: any of various large chiefly tropical beetles having horns on the head; pest on coconuts → 0
Candidate hypernym: console: an ornamental scroll-shaped bracket (especially one used to support a wall fixture) → 0
Candidate hypernym: trey: one of four playing cards in a deck having three pips → 0
Candidate hypernym: bristly sarsaparilla: bristly herb of eastern and central North America having black fruit and medicinal bark → 0
Candidate hypernym: principal: the major party to a financial transaction at a stock exchange; buys and sells for his own account → 0
Candidate hypernym: self-insurance: insuring yourself by setting aside money to cover possible losses rather than by purchasing an insurance policy → 0