moneylender
a person or organization whose business it is to lend money at interest.
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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.
The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes | Israel ZangwillBut if the working miner remained poor, the moneylender waxed wealthy on the miners' work.
Cornish Characters | S. Baring-GouldThere is none round which it has not cast its feelers--no Semitic moneylender ever obtained a surer hold on his victim.
Crescent and Iron Cross | E. F. BensonIn theory the sale of a squire's land to a moneylender is a minor and exceptional necessity.
A Miscellany of Men | G. K. ChestertonI 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
/ (ˈmʌnɪˌlɛndə) /
a person who lends money at interest as a living
Derived forms of moneylender
- moneylending, adjective, noun
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