Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One that lends money at an interest rate.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who lends money on interest.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun someone who lends money at excessive rates of interest.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who
lends money and chargesinterest , especially one who is not part of the officialfinancial industry
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who lends money at excessive rates of interest
Etymologies
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Examples
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In 1966, a young man named Ed Greenwood was writing adventures about a certain moneylender named Mirt.
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The Marx and Ritz Brothers drive reality squealing like a moneylender from the temple.
Film 2008
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In theory the sale of a squire's land to a moneylender is a minor and exceptional necessity.
A Miscellany of Men 1905
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You tell me this man you have here spent weeks and months wheedling needy women out of small sums of money; that he used a drug at the best, and a poison at the worst; that he turned up afterwards as the lowest kind of moneylender, and cheated most poor people in the same patient and pacific style.
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You tell me this man you have here spent weeks and months wheedling needy women out of small sums of money; that he used a drug at the best, and a poison at the worst; that he turned up afterwards as the lowest kind of moneylender, and cheated most poor people in the same patient and pacific style.
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You tell me this man you have here spent weeks and months wheedling needy women out of small sums of money; that he used a drug at the best, and a poison at the worst; that he turned up afterwards as the lowest kind of moneylender, and cheated most poor people in the same patient and pacific style.
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But in this imagined case, anyone with even the most passing familiarity with genetics would dismiss the idea of a “greedy moneylender” gene out of hand.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Approaching Arguments That Have A Racist Past 2010
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Fear of bringing up the “greedy moneylender” controversy is why universities refuse to teach The Merchant of Venice, just as fear of the “uncontrolled thug” stereotype led to “Othello, the WASP with anger issues of Venice”.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Approaching Arguments That Have A Racist Past 2010
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But there is no controversy over “Greedy moneylender” — hence its usefulness for parody.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Approaching Arguments That Have A Racist Past 2010
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The film centers on Clemente Bruno Odar, a moneylender with strict rules and what appears to be a joyless and solitary existence.
Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: Octubre Marshall Fine 2011
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