money lender
Provides financial advances
A money lender is a person or entity that loans money at interest.
The term often carries negative connotations, suggesting high interest rates or predatory practices: The money lender charged exorbitant fees.
In historical and literary contexts, money lenders appear as figures of both necessity and exploitation.
Also spelled moneylender.
- loan sharkIllegal high-interest moneylender
- usurerLender demanding excessive interest
- pawnbrokerLender against personal property
- loan officePlace that issues credit
- pound of fleshRuthless debt collection
Shylock · interest · principal · creditor · payment · debt trap · hard times · collateral · bankruptcy law · debt · loan · debt collection · banker · credit check · amortization · repayment schedule · ledger · note
- old occupationsblacksmith, carpenter, miller, farmer, shepherd
- informal financecash only, under the table, off the books, handshake deal, verbal agreement
- ancient occupationssoldier, merchant, farmer, shepherd, carpenter
- craftsmenblacksmith, carpenter, cobbler, mason, weaver
- merchantstraders, merchant, merchants, retailers, vendors
- ancient tradeSilk Road, caravan routes, trade routes, trade route, spice trade
money lenderborrower
One who takes temporarily
debtor · mortgagee · bankrupt · spendthrift · defaulter
money lenderphilanthropist
Donor to charitable causes
benefactor · charitable donor · almsgiver · patron · donor
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