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usurer

[yoo-zher-er] / ˈyu ʒər ər /




NOUN
loan shark
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Fat Usurer in reply to Fat Usurer Nov 26th 2012 10:30 GMT ... and further more, leaders may not understand what they're discussing and what they want.

From Economist • Nov. 23, 2012

Fat Usurer in reply to sikko6 May 20th 2012 4:51 GMT IMO, ECB will go away first, since it's a gun without bullet.

From Economist • May 15, 2012

Last week Usurer Ritter pleaded guilty to ten counts of usury, will be sentenced for them after Pacific Fi nance has repaid $250,000 to its victims.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then followed him old Master Fulsome, the Usurer: there's a wise Widdow; why, she cried ne'er a whit at all.

From The Puritaine Widdow by Shakespeare (spurious and doubtful works)

Robert T. Conrad's "Jack Cade," John Howard Payne's "Brutus," George Henry Boker's "Francesca da Rimini," and Nathaniel P. Willis's "Tortesa, the Usurer," would thus have been ruled from the collection.

From Representative Plays by American Dramatists 1765-1819 by Moses, Montrose Jonas