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Someone who lends money at excessive rates of interest
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moneylender
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. someone who lends money at excessive rates of interest [syn: usurer , loan shark , shylock ]
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
A moneylender is a person or group who typically offers small personal loans at high rates of interest and is distinct from banks and financial institutions that typically provide such loans. The high interest rates charged by them is justified in many ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ After World War I, 50 percent of the land was mortgaged to moneylenders by owner-tenant farmers. ▪ Everyone, however, sympathized with junior officials; and everyone constantly wished a violent death on usurers and moneylenders. ...
Usage examples of moneylender.
In fact, the stewards had deposited the bulk of that coin with moneylenders in Novae and Prista and Durostorum, with the result that every eight of my invested solidi earned me one additional solidus in interest every year.
The bank snatched the house back, and the moneylenders decided to give me a rough time.
She had no intention of leaving Liverpool until Georgie was well and truly settled in a new place, and wanted to be certain that the moneylenders were off her back for good.
She would cope with that, but moneylenders were a different kind of trouble.
Jack have freed me from the moneylenders, I have to look after myself.
And, learned Mithridates, these moneylenders were usually employees of the tax-farming companies, though the companies had no share in the money lending.
Asellio could enforce his revival of that old law, the moneylenders heard of his intention and petitioned him to reopen the bankruptcy courts.
Included among the senatorial moneylenders was Lucius Cassius, a tribune of the plebs.
A few days after his confrontation with the moneylenders he was already taking the auspices when he noticed that the crowd in the Forum below him was much larger than the usual gathering to witness an augury.
But even among the senatorial moneylenders opposition was halfhearted, as everyone could appreciate that collecting some money was better than collecting none, and Sulla had not attempted to abolish interest entirely.
Though the moneylenders were not Roman officials, they employed Roman officials to collect when debts became delinquent.
Led by one of their tribal elders known in Latin as Brogus, they had arrived to protest to the Senate against their treatment by a series of governors like Gaius Calpurnius Piso, and by certain moneylenders masquerading as bankers.
Roman Republican times, but one I have used to describe men deputed to keep law and order if lictors were not employed, and also to describe men employed by moneylenders to harass a debtor and prevent his absconding.
The moneylenders to whom the thirty-six-year-old rake owed millions began to dun him so persistently and unpleasantly that he hardly dared show his face in the better parts of Rome.
Then the revelation about Papa's blackmailing the unfortunate young man had been borne out by the moneylenders, who had descended upon the widowed Mrs.