moneylender

[US]/'mʌnɪlendə/
[UK]/'mʌnɪ'lɛndɚ/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. lender of money

Example Sentences

borrow money from a moneylender

avoid dealing with illegal moneylenders

the moneylender's terms and conditions

repay the moneylender on time

seek help from a reputable moneylender

the moneylender's interest rates

default on a loan from a moneylender

the moneylender's collection practices

the moneylender's business operations

Real-world Examples

The overturned table is a likely reference to christ and the moneylenders.

Source: Secrets of Masterpieces

Suddenly they were in the heart of the capital, among the businessmen and moneylenders.

Source: A Christmas Carol

All the moneychangers and moneylenders were under his control.

Source: Pan Pan

The workers were landless Dalits or their children, forced to borrow to pay for medicines or dowries from a local, higher-caste moneylender.

Source: The Economist (Summary)

One must not try to amuse moneylenders or investors, and this was the class to which he began by appealing.

Source: The Education of Henry Adams (Part Two)

The bishop of Strasbourg, who had 2,000 Jews burned to death one day in 1349, owed huge sums to Jewish moneylenders.

Source: The Economist Culture

The sellsword grew more serious. " There's a moneylender from Braavos, holding fancy papers and the like, requests to see the king about payment on some loan" .

Source: A Song of Ice and Fire: A Clash of Kings (Bilingual Edition)

" Three freedmen, murdered in their homes, " the Shavepate said. " A moneylender, a cobbler, and the harpist Rylona Rhee. They cut her fingers off before they killed her" .

Source: A Dance with Dragons: The Song of Ice and Fire (Bilingual Chinese-English)

Tech start ups promise to transform finance, if regulators will let them TWO millennia after the Temple was cleansed of money changers, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, plans to open his churches to moneylenders.

Source: The Economist - Comprehensive

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