us-, ut-

1. The right to use and enjoy the profits and advantages of something belonging to another as long as the property is not damaged or altered in any way.
2. The right of using and enjoying the profits of an estate or other thing belonging to another, without impairing the substance.
3. A legal term describing a situation wherein a person or company has a temporary right to use and derive income from someone else's property (provided that it isn't damaged).

1. Someone who is entitled by usufruct to the use of another person's property.
2. Of or relating to the nature of a usufruct.
3. Someone who holds property by usufruct.

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. To seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; to take as one's right or possession.
2. To seize and hold (a position, office, power, etc.) by force or without legal right.
3. To take over or occupy without right: "He tried to usurp a neighbor's land."
4. To wrongfully seize another's place, authority, or possession.
5. To use without authority or right; employ wrongfully: "The magazine usurped copyrighted material."
6. Etymology: from Latin usurpare, "to get possession of, to acquire"; from usus, "use" and rapere, "to seize" (usu-rapos); then through Middle French usurper and via Middle English usurpen.

Usurping; encroaching.

To usurp.

1. Wrongfully seizing and holding (an office or powers) by force (especially the seizure of a throne or some other supreme authority).
2. Entry to another person's property without a legal right or permission.
3. To seize or to exercise authority or possession of something wrongfully.

1. Marked by usurpation; usurping.
2. An act of usurping; wrongful or illegal encroachment, infringement, or seizure.