usurer
Americannoun
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a person who lends money and charges interest, especially at an exorbitant or unlawful rate; moneylender.
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Obsolete. a person who lends money at interest.
noun
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a person who lends funds at an exorbitant rate of interest
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obsolete a moneylender
Etymology
Origin of usurer
1250–1300; Middle English < Anglo-French < Medieval Latin ūsūrārius, equivalent to ūsūr ( ia ) usury + Latin -ārius -ary
Example Sentences
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Fat Usurer in reply to Fat Usurer Nov 26th 2012 10:30 GMT ... and further more, leaders may not understand what they're discussing and what they want.
From Economist • Nov. 23, 2012
Fat Usurer in reply to sikko6 May 20th 2012 4:51 GMT IMO, ECB will go away first, since it's a gun without bullet.
From Economist • May 15, 2012
Last week Usurer Ritter pleaded guilty to ten counts of usury, will be sentenced for them after Pacific Fi nance has repaid $250,000 to its victims.
From Time Magazine Archive
O here's another pumpion, Let him loose for luck sake, the cram'd son Of a stay'd Usurer, Cacafogo, both their brains butter'd, Cannot make two spoonfulls.
From Rule a Wife, and Have a Wife Beaumont & Fletcher's Works (3 of 10) by Beaumont, Francis
Usurer A agrees to lend him his ax to cut B's wood on the condition that he shall return it unimpaired and work his garden for its use.
From Usury A Scriptural, Ethical and Economic View by Elliott, Calvin
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