moneylender

Example Sentences

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Lloyds Banking Group, which owns all three banking brands and is the UK's biggest moneylender, said the move would give customers more choice and flexibility.

From BBC

When Atul passed the exam, his father asked for help from a local moneylender.

From BBC

Shocked by their beloved aunt’s death, they must come together for the raucous funeral to honor Cambotown’s biggest moneylender.

From Seattle Times

Because Shylock, the Jewish moneylender who infamously demands a pound of flesh in “The Merchant of Venice,” is, if a villain, a complicated one: persecuted, spit upon and scorned by Christians for being a Jew.

From New York Times

In a sense you could see all of those pamphlets explaining the system as a way of saying, it's not just the moneylender who's responsible for all your woes.

From Salon