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usufructing

usufructing is the present participle and gerund of usufruct.

Meaning of usufruct

Verb

usufruct (third-person singular simple present usufructs, present participle usufructing, simple past and past participle usufructed)

  1. (also, figuratively) To use and derive profit or benefit from property that belongs to another person.
    • An enabling myth is just that—a myth that enables those who benefit from the status quo to keep on benefiting. Thorstein Veblen would say that it enabled the usufructuaries to keep on usufructing.1992, William M. Dugger, “Three Modes of Income Distribution”, in Underground Economics: A Decade of Institutionalist Dissent (Institutional Economics Series), Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, →ISBN, page...

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Questions about usufructing

What is usufructing the present participle and gerund of?
Usufructing is the present participle and gerund of usufruct.

Words near usufructing in the dictionary

  1. usucaptor
  2. usucaptors
  3. usucapts
  4. usufruct
  5. usufructed
  6. usufructing
  7. usufruction
  8. usufructs
  9. usufructuaries
  10. usufructuary
  11. usufructuous

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