moneylender
Interest-charging creditor
A moneylender is a person or institution that lends money at interest.
The term often implies lending outside traditional banking—sometimes at high rates or to borrowers banks won't serve: The family borrowed from a local moneylender when the bank turned them down.
In historical and literary contexts, moneylenders appear as figures of both necessity and predation.
Illegal high-interest moneylender
- shylockPredatory, extortionate lender
- predatoryExploiting the vulnerable
- extortionateUnreasonably high in cost
- exorbitantUnreasonably high, as costs
gouging · profiteering · exploitation · rapacious · avaricious · bloodsucker · leech · fleecing
One owed money
- borrowerOne who takes temporarily
- loanBorrowed money repaid later
- creditRecognition or payment deferral
- pawnbrokerLender against personal property
microloan · advance · financing · collateral · repayment · installment · principal · amortization
Store lending against collateral
Private ownership supporter
- investorOne who allocates capital
- bankerMoney institution employee
- brokerTransaction intermediary for hire
- financierManager of substantial funds
underwriter · speculator · funds · capital · asset · wealth · securities · portfolio
loan shark
Illegal high-interest moneylender
- shylockPredatory, extortionate lender
- predatoryExploiting the vulnerable
- extortionateUnreasonably high in cost
exorbitant · gouging · profiteering · exploitation · rapacious · avaricious · bloodsucker · leech · fleecing · merciless
creditor
One owed money
- borrowerOne who takes temporarily
- loanBorrowed money repaid later
- creditRecognition or payment deferral
pawnbroker · microloan · advance · financing · collateral · repayment · installment · principal · amortization · underwrite
pawnshop
Store lending against collateral
capitalist
Private ownership supporter
- investorOne who allocates capital
- bankerMoney institution employee
- brokerTransaction intermediary for hire
financier · underwriter · speculator · funds · capital · asset · wealth · securities · portfolio · venture
- medieval townmarket square, town square, town wall, town walls, town gate
- money handlersbanker, teller, cashier, bank clerk, bank manager
- old occupationsblacksmith, carpenter, miller, farmer, shepherd
- Indian Economyrupee, mutual funds, IPO, fixed deposit, UPI
- loan sharksloan shark, shylock, vig, vigorish, juice
- old-time tradersfur trapper, spice trader, horse trader, wine merchant, factor
moneylenderphilanthropist
Donor to charitable causes
benefactor · charitable donor · almsgiver · donor · patron
moneylenderbank
Place holding deposits
credit union · building society · savings and loan · financial institution · mortgage company