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 • Jan. 9, 2025

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

From Seattle Times • Dec. 21, 2023

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 • Sep. 14, 2023

“The essential nature of art is freedom,” said the Oscar-winning actor F. Murray Abraham, whose many credits include Shylock, the Jewish moneylender of Shakespeare’s “The Merchant of Venice,” though Mr. Abraham is not Jewish.

From New York Times • Jul. 28, 2022

"There's a moneylender from Braavos, holding fancy papers and the like, requests to see the king about payment on some loan."

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin