usurer

Noun

Meaning

One who lends money and takes interest for it; a money lender.

One who lends money at a rate of interest beyond that established by law; one who exacts an exorbitant rate of interest for the use of money.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

banker loan shark lombard bank shylock skinflint merchant capitalist financier lender backer tycoon speculator mortgagee granter
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Antonyms

beneficent free spender prodigal recipient generous
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Hypernyms

shark lender

Related terms

usury usurious usuress usurial

Anagrams

rusure

Examples

A legal thief, a bloodless murderer, A fiend incarnate, a false usurer. Joseph Hall

When a government becomes powerful it is destructive, extravagant and violent it is an usurer which takes bread from innocent mouths and deprives honorable men of their substance, for votes with which to perpetuate itself. Cicero

Close letter words and terms

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