moneylender - Definition from the LOANS topic - BUSINESS

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moneylender
noun

mon‧ey‧lend‧er See pronunciation table in "How to use dictionary" pages

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[countable]

BFL someone whose business is to lend money to people, especially someone who makes people pay back a lot more money than they have borrowed

—moneylending noun [uncountable]

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Most of his fortune came from moneylending.

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