moneylender

[muhn-ee-len-der]

noun

1. a person or organization whose business it is to lend money at interest.

moneylender

/ ˈmʌnɪˌlɛndə /

noun

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

Other Word Forms

• moneylending adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of moneylender¹

1775–85; money + lender ( def. )

Example Sentences

Lloyds Banking Group, which owns all three banking brands and is the UK's biggest moneylender, said the move would give customers more choice and flexibility.

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When Atul passed the exam, his father asked for help from a local moneylender.

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Shocked by their beloved aunt’s death, they must come together for the raucous funeral to honor Cambotown’s biggest moneylender.

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Because Shylock, the Jewish moneylender who infamously demands a pound of flesh in “The Merchant of Venice,” is, if a villain, a complicated one: persecuted, spit upon and scorned by Christians for being a Jew.

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In a sense you could see all of those pamphlets explaining the system as a way of saying, it's not just the moneylender who's responsible for all your woes.

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