Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to usufruct
Participle: usufructed
Gerund: usufructing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | usufruct |
| you | usufruct |
| he;she;it | usufructs |
| we | usufruct |
| you | usufruct |
| they | usufruct |
Perfect
| I | have usufructed |
| you | have usufructed |
| he;she;it | has usufructed |
| we | have usufructed |
| you | have usufructed |
| they | have usufructed |
Past
| I | usufructed |
| you | usufructed |
| he;she;it | usufructed |
| we | usufructed |
| you | usufructed |
| they | usufructed |
Pluperfect
| I | had usufructed |
| you | had usufructed |
| he;she;it | had usufructed |
| we | had usufructed |
| you | had usufructed |
| they | had usufructed |
Future
| I | will usufruct |
| you | will usufruct |
| he;she;it | will usufruct |
| we | will usufruct |
| you | will usufruct |
| they | will usufruct |
Future Perfect
| I | will have usufructed |
| you | will have usufructed |
| he;she;it | will have usufructed |
| we | will have usufructed |
| you | will have usufructed |
| they | will have usufructed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | usufruct |
| you | usufruct |
| he;she;it | usufruct |
| we | usufruct |
| you | usufruct |
| they | usufruct |
Perfect
| I | have usufructed |
| you | have usufructed |
| he;she;it | have usufructed |
| we | have usufructed |
| you | have usufructed |
| they | have usufructed |
Imperfect
| I | usufructed |
| you | usufructed |
| he;she;it | usufructed |
| we | usufructed |
| you | usufructed |
| they | usufructed |
Pluperfect
| I | had usufructed |
| you | had usufructed |
| he;she;it | had usufructed |
| we | had usufructed |
| you | had usufructed |
| they | had usufructed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would usufruct |
| you | would usufruct |
| he;she;it | would usufruct |
| we | would usufruct |
| you | would usufruct |
| they | would usufruct |
Perfect
| I | would have usufructed |
| you | would have usufructed |
| he;she;it | would have usufructed |
| we | would have usufructed |
| you | would have usufructed |
| they | would have usufructed |
Imperative
| you | usufruct |
| we | Let's usufruct |
| you | usufruct |
Verbs conjugated like 'usufruct'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'usufruct'
subduct,
assfuck,
astrict,
befruit,
destruct,
diffract,
eruct,
extruct,
fract,
fruit,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Late Latin ūsufrūctus, from ūsus + frūctus (“usage of the fruits of production”). Cognate with French usufruit, Italian usufrutto, usofrutto, Occitan usufrug, Portuguese usufruto, Spanish usufructo.
Sample Sentences
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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 315:]
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The use of the property of an orphan by a guardian who carries out his guardianship, is allowed for the latter's daily subsistence. Such use should be just and reasonable. […] According to al-Sha'bá, such just and reasonable use is like usufructing the milk of cattle, having services from servants and riding animals or vehicles, as long as such usufruction does not impair or damage the property itself. [1994, Abdullah Alwi Haji Hassan, “Loans, Deposit and al-Ḥajr”, in Sales and Contracts in Early Islamic Commercial Law, Islamabad: Islamic Research Institute, International Islamic University, (Islamic Research Institute, Islamabad; no. 92), →OCLC; republished Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia: The Other Press, 2007, page 199]
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The El Ferrocarril newspaper on May 26, 1889 worried that foreign capital had transformed the nitrate region into "a kind of English India, usufructed [i.e. deriving profit from land which is not theirs] by a multitude of limited companies organized outside Chile, without any national interest, whose directors can easily come to understandings on monopolies of production and consumption, leaving the nation with a sovereignty more nominal than real" (author's translation). [2011, William Edmundson, The Nitrate King: A Biography of “Colonel” John Thomas North (Studies of the Americas), New York, N.Y.: Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN:]
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So they got together for a big meeting someplace and started an organization that would protect bullies from people who would not allow them to usufruct with impunity. [2012, Frederic Voss, “The Origins of Usufruct”, in The Newshawk Reports: The Writings of a Politically Incorrect Newsbird, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 257:]
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[Lucio] Gutiérrez was sold to public opinion as an ally of the popular sectors, with the promise of putting an end to the oligarchic elites who had usufructed and seized the Ecuadorian state. The truth is that, once in power, Gutiérrez broke the pact with the indigenous sector; three years later, in April 2005, he was deposed from government. [2016, Octavio Humberto Moreno Velador, “The National-Popular Alternative and the Processes of Democratization from Below in the Andean Nations”, in Emelio Betances, Carlos Figueroa Ibarra, editors, Popular Sovereignty and Constituent Power in Latin America: Democracy from Below, New York, N.Y.: Palgrave Macmillan, →DOI, →ISBN, page 54:]