moneylendern.
/ˈmʌnɪˌlɛndə/, U.S. /ˈməniˌlɛndər/ A person whose business is lending money at interest.
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society > trade and finance > financial dealings > moneylending > [noun] > one who lends money > at interest
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1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Banchiere, a banker or Lombard, or a money lender.
a1612 J. Harington Epigrams (1618) ii. Epigr. 74 He comes to Titus knowne a wary spender, A pleasant wit, but no great money-lender.
1728 J. Gay Beggar's Opera iii. iv. 43 Have an Eye upon the Money-Lenders.—A Rouleau, or two, would prove a pretty sort of an Expedition.
1798 Anti-Jacobin 1 Jan. 64/1 Sober plodding Money-lenders..little in the habit of lending their Funds on prophetic Mortgages.
1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 1st Ser. II. 143 The better sort of pawnbroker calls himself a silversmith,..while the more humble money-lender boldly advertises his calling, and invites observation.
1878 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. (ed. 2) III. xviii. 91 The odium which has been heaped upon him as a money-lender.
1916 J. London Let. 12 Oct. (1966) 473 ‘Uncle Charley’..then proceeded to shake you down in proper money-lender..fashion.
1951 H. Arendt Burden of our Time i. ii. 11 The Jews, with their age-old experience as moneylenders..used to handle financial matters.
1989 Which? Jan. 17/2 Money lenders who collect repayments door-to-door.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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