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
This one sentence will discou- rage any Usurer, knowyng hymself a murtherer.
From A booke called the Foundacion of Rhetorike because all other partes of Rhetorike are grounded thereupon, euery parte sette forthe in an Oracion vpon questions, verie profitable to bee knowen and redde by Rainolde, Richard
No more than the Usurer would, to whom he has mortgag'd the best part of his Estate, would forbear a Day after the promis'd Payment of the Money.
From The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III by Summers, Montague
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