moneylender

[ muhn-ee-len-der ]
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noun
  1. a person or organization whose business it is to lend money at interest.

Origin of moneylender

1
1775–85; money + lender

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How to use moneylender in a sentence

  • You don't owe me the money at all; I made no bargain with you; I am not a moneylender.

  • But if the working miner remained poor, the moneylender waxed wealthy on the miners' work.

    Cornish Characters | S. Baring-Gould
  • There is none round which it has not cast its feelers--no Semitic moneylender ever obtained a surer hold on his victim.

  • In theory the sale of a squire's land to a moneylender is a minor and exceptional necessity.

    A Miscellany of Men | G. K. Chesterton
  • I declare to you, if you refuse, I will sell it to-morrow to the first moneylender I can find, and send you my debt in hard cash.

    Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume I. | Charles James Lever

British Dictionary definitions for moneylender

moneylender

/ (ˈmʌnɪˌlɛndə) /


noun
  1. a person who lends money at interest as a living

Derived forms of moneylender

  • moneylending, adjective, noun

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