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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Jews never belong enough anywhere to avoid vilification as parasites, vultures, usurers and traitors.
From New York Times
As Exodus 22:25 states: “If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as an usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury.”
From Los Angeles Times
"The real enemies of Europe," she said, "Are the bankers, usurers and technocrats."
From Reuters
Congress has the power to – and should – drive usurers away from our military installations, because such lenders pose a risk to the national defense.
From US News
The bourgeois — a doctor, a merchant, a usurer — are his main target, their music rootless, full of inane little scales that crescendo to deafening, unconducted carnage that implodes into deserved nothingness.
From New York Times
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