usur-

1. Someone who lends money at interest, especially at an exorbitant or unlawfully high rate.
2. A person who loans money at excessive rates of interest; loan shark, moneylender, shylock.

1. Practicing usury by charging illegal or exorbitant rates of interest for the use of money: "He was a usurious moneylender."
2. Constituting or characterized by usury: "They charged usurious rates of interest for that usurious loan."

Pertaining to usury; partaking of the nature of usury; involving usury; tainted with usury; as, "a usurious contract".

1. The practice of lending money and charging the borrower interest, especially at an exorbitant or illegally high rate.
2. An excessive or illegally high rate of interest charged on borrowed money.
3. The lending of money at exorbitant interest rates; specifically: "The crime of charging or contracting to charge an unlawfully high rate of interest."
4. A rate or amount of interest charged in usury.
5. Collectively, the laws of a jurisdiction regulating the charging of interest rates.

Usury is etymologically "use" of money lent. The term comes by way of Anglo-Norman usurie from Medieval Latin usuria, an alteration of classical Latin usura, "use of money lent"; hence, "interest". This in turn was derived from usus, "use", source also of English use and usage.