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

He remembers lines, too, that have been stored in his brain ever since — like the “Hath not a Jew eyes” speech, in which his character, the moneylender Shylock, asserts his own humanity.

From New York Times • Feb. 3, 2022

That was one of the reasons the interest rates were so high — the moneylender ran the risk of losing his money altogether.

From "Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village" by Laura Amy Schlitz