Wucher
derNounusury; exorbitant price
English translations
- 01
usury
- 02
profiteering
Word details
- German meaning
- Überhöhte, unrechtmäßige Zinsen oder Preise; Ausnutzung einer Notlage, um unangemessen hohe Gewinne zu erzielen.
- English meaning
- Usury, profiteering
- Synonym
- Abzocke, Ausbeutung
- German example
- Die hohen Preise für Schutzmasken während der Pandemie grenzten an Wucher.
- English example
- The high prices for face masks during the pandemic bordered on profiteering.
- Type
- Noun
- Article
- der
- Singular Form
- der Wucher
- Plural Form
- None
Related words
- Wucherpreis
usurious price
- Wucherpreis
exorbitant price
- Wucherpreis
rip-off price
- Wucherblume
buttercup
- Wucherin
Usurer
- Wiesen-Wucherblume
meadow buttercup
- Wucherer
A person who charges excessively high interest rates for loans, often in an unfair or illegal way.
- Wucherin
A usurer is a woman who charges excessively high interest rates for borrowed money, thereby exploiting others.
- Wucherpreis
Exorbitant price, gouging price
- Wucherung
Growth, proliferation
- Wucherblume
Mother of thousands
- wuchern
to proliferate
- Kronenwucherblume
The crown imperial is an ornamental plant with striking, crown-shaped flowers.
- Wiesenwucherblume
Dandelion
- Wiesen-Wucherblume
oxeye daisy
- Kronen-Wucherblume
Rose campion
- Saat-Wucherblume
Corn buttercup
- überwachsen
overgrown
- unkrautartig
Weed-like
- myxomartig
Myxoma-like
- Kredithai
Loan shark
- Polyp
Polyp
- Überteuerung
Overpricing
- Stechwinde
Hedge bindweed
- Tumor
Tumor
- Warze
wart
- überwachsen
overgrown
- ausufern
to get out of hand, to spread
- verwildern
To become wild, to run wild
- Schlingpflanze
Climbing plant
- Knöterich
Knotweed
- Halsabschneider
Profiteer, swindler
- Wasserhyazinthe
Water hyacinth
- Geschwulst
Tumor
Example sentences with “Wucher”
Das ist Wucher! (That is usury/a rip-off!)
Frequently asked questions
Is 'Wucher' masculine?
Yes, 'der Wucher'.