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moneylender

 noun
     
Related topics: Loans
mon‧ey‧lend‧er [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]
Most of his fortune came from moneylending.
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