moneylending
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A new report commissioned by Fair4All Finance, a government-backed body that works on financial inclusion, looks at the lived experience of illegal moneylending in the UK.
From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2023
Britain is almost uniquely laissez-faire when it comes to moneylending.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 21, 2010
He knew his father-in-law was in business in the City; but he did not know that the business of "Harker's," for which he had a great respect, had anything to do with moneylending.
From Adrien Leroy by Charles Garvice
Besides, we all know that moneylending, together with respectability, developes a certain thoughtfulness in men.
From A Desperate Character and Other Stories by Constance Garnett
But it has probably contributed to expedite the transfer of land from the cultivating to the moneylending classes.
From The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II by R. V. (Robert Vane) Russell