Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A dealer in money; a usurer.

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Examples

  • The anomaly, the only anomaly which had been detected by the vice-consular wisdom, consisted in the fact that Rothschild (the late money-monger) had never been the Prime Minister of England!

    Eothen 2003

  • It was asserted, too, that he was a money-monger, a usurer, and lent petty sums by the day to costermongers, and let out barrows to them, exacting a scandalous rate of interest in return.

    The Fat and the Thin ��mile Zola 1871

  • The anomaly, the only anomaly which had been detected by the vice-consular wisdom, consisted in the fact that Rothschild (the late money-monger) had never been the Prime Minister of England!

    Eothen, or, Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East Alexander William Kinglake 1850

  • And who passed his life with more affluence and jollity, than such an epicure, such a money-monger, such a tally-broker, and cheater of the public?

    Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. III. 1634-1716 1823

  • The dollar is rising due to money trader speculation (where's Jesus 'money-monger table kicking when you need it?), crumbling Ontario's manufacturing sector.

    "BANPC" via James Bow in Google Reader Mark Francis 2010

  • And were it not that we must subject our accounts of these common received conceits to servile custom, it goes much against my hand to sign that for a trifling subject on which more worthiness of soul hath been shewed, and weight of divine wit, than can vouchsafe residence in the leaden gravity of any money-monger; in whose profession all serious subjects are concluded.

    The Works of Christopher Marlowe, Vol. 3 (of 3) Christopher Marlowe 1578

  • I feel the same as most of you about these crooked money-monger credit card companies.

    The Red Tape Chronicles 2008

  • "You odious money-monger, infamous partisan, barbarous evildoer, you pretend this house to be yours?

    The Queen Pedauque Anatole France 1884

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