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1. The period of time permitted by commercial usage for the payment of a bill of exchange (especially a foreign bill of exchange)
    
2. (economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing
   - consumption, economic consumption, use, use of goods and services
    
3. Accepted or habitual practice
   - custom, usage

Derived forms: usances

See also: use

Type of: demand, pattern, period, period of time, practice, survival, time period

Encyclopedia: Usance