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

Derived Forms

• ˈmoneyˌlending, adjectivenoun

Word History and Origins

Origin of moneylender¹

1775–85; money + lender ( def )

Example Sentences

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

From BBC

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

From Seattle Times

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.

From New York Times

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.

From Salon

Mr Abbas said Adolf Hitler ordered the mass murder of Jews because of their "social role" as moneylenders, rather than out of animosity to Judaism.

From BBC

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