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
Twenty or more village kotwārs were found to be carrying on moneylending transactions on a small scale, and in addition many of the Mahārs in towns were exceedingly well off.
From The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala by Russell, R. V. (Robert Vane)
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 Parry, Edward Abbott
For several years before the present war, the financiers of Berlin were forbidden to engage in moneylending operations abroad.
From International Finance by Withers, Hartley
