usurer
Exploitative money lender
A usurer is a person who lends money at exorbitant interest rates.
The term carries strong moral condemnation—historically, many religions prohibited or restricted charging interest on loans, making usury a sin.
Today usurer suggests predatory lending practices that exploit the desperate: The usurer charged rates that would make a loan shark blush.
One providing loans
- creditorOne owed money
- pawnbrokerLender against personal property
- shylockPredatory, extortionate lender
- bankerMoney institution employee
financier · loan shark · microfinance · payday lender · mortgagee · noteholder · debtholder · lienholder
Exploiting the vulnerable
- extortionObtaining through threats
- gougeConcave carving blade
- overchargeDemand excessive payment
- squeezeFirm bilateral compression
profiteer · loan shark · predatory lending · exploitation · oppressive · unscrupulous · merciless · ruthless
- bloodsuckerOrganism feeding on plasma
- leechBlood-feeding aquatic worm
- vultureCarrion-eating raptor
- parasiteOne exploiting a host
shark · pound of flesh · Fagin · Scrooge · villain · miser · skinflint
Excessive desire for riches
- rapacityAggressive, seizing greed
- covetousnessExcessive desire for possessions
- money-grubbingObsessively seeking wealth
- greedExcessive desire for wealth
acquisitiveness · hoarding · mercenary · insatiability · mammon · usurious · grasping · avaricious
Returns on reinvested earnings
- rateMeasured speed or charge
- APRYearly borrowing cost
- percentageProportion out of hundred
- exorbitantUnreasonably high, as costs
excessive · penalty · accrual · principal · default · amortization · installment · payment
moneylender
One providing loans
- creditorOne owed money
- pawnbrokerLender against personal property
- shylockPredatory, extortionate lender
banker · financier · loan shark · microfinance · payday lender · mortgagee · noteholder · debtholder · lienholder
predatory
Exploiting the vulnerable
- extortionObtaining through threats
- gougeConcave carving blade
- overchargeDemand excessive payment
squeeze · profiteer · loan shark · predatory lending · exploitation · oppressive · unscrupulous · merciless · ruthless · payday lender
Shylock
- bloodsuckerOrganism feeding on plasma
- leechBlood-feeding aquatic worm
- vultureCarrion-eating raptor
parasite · shark · pound of flesh · Fagin · Scrooge · villain · miser · skinflint
avarice
Excessive desire for riches
- rapacityAggressive, seizing greed
- covetousnessExcessive desire for possessions
- money-grubbingObsessively seeking wealth
greed · acquisitiveness · hoarding · mercenary · insatiability · mammon · usurious · grasping · avaricious · lucre
compound interest
Returns on reinvested earnings
- rateMeasured speed or charge
- APRYearly borrowing cost
- percentageProportion out of hundred
exorbitant · excessive · penalty · accrual · principal · default · amortization · installment · payment · overdraft
- sinnerssinner, transgressor, evildoer, wrongdoer, blasphemer
- exploitersexploiter, predator, parasite, user, leech
- bloodsuckersmosquito, tick, flea, leech, bedbug
- merchantstraders, merchant, merchants, retailers, vendors
- financial institutionsbanks, central bank, commercial banks, investment bank, investment banks
- medieval trademerchant, merchant guilds, trader, craft guilds, guild
usurerphilanthropist
Donor to charitable causes
benefactor · debtor · borrower · donor · almsgiver
- usury lawsStatutes limiting interest rates