moneylender
noun
a person or organization whose business it is to lend money at interest.
moneylending
-
a word derived from
moneylender.
Example Sentences
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A new report commissioned by Fair4All Finance, a government-backed body that works on financial inclusion, looks at the lived experience of illegal moneylending in the UK.
From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2023
Britain is almost uniquely laissez-faire when it comes to moneylending.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 21, 2010
What is this but an evil and ruinous form of moneylending?
From The Law and the Poor by Edward Abbott Parry
Besides, we all know that moneylending, together with respectability, developes a certain thoughtfulness in men.
From A Desperate Character and Other Stories by Constance Garnett
The system of credit-giving, and especially of moneylending, assumed a more beneficial character, and “the old noxious contracts, mere snares for the liberty of a poor free man and his children”—the flat-traps of to-day—disappeared.
From The Law and the Poor by Edward Abbott Parry
