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moneylender

noun as in banker

noun as in lender

noun as in loan shark

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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.

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.

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

Mr Abbas said Adolf Hitler ordered the mass murder of Jews because of their "social role" as moneylenders, rather than out of animosity to Judaism.

From BBC

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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