usurers
Exploitative money lenders
Usurers are people who lend money at excessively high or exploitative interest rates.
The term carries strong moral condemnation, rooted in religious prohibitions against charging interest on loans.
While historical usurers were simply moneylenders in an era when any interest was considered sinful, modern usage reserves the word for predatory lenders who exploit desperate borrowers.
The medieval usurers grew wealthy while their debtors languished in poverty.
One providing loans
- pawnbrokerLender against personal property
- creditorOne owed money
- financierManager of substantial funds
- shylockPredatory, extortionate lender
Excessive desire for riches
- rapacityAggressive, seizing greed
- covetousnessExcessive desire for possessions
- acquisitivenessDesire to gather wealth
- insatiabilityInability to feel satisfied
hoarding · graspingness · moneygrubbing · mercenary · profiteering · mammonism · voracity · avaricious
Exploiting the vulnerable
- extortionObtaining through threats
- gougeConcave carving blade
- overchargeDemand excessive payment
- squeezeFirm bilateral compression
bleed · oppress · coerce · ensnare · profiteer · swindle · manipulate · plunder
Chief school administrator
- collateralSecurity for debt
- securityProtection from threat
- repaymentGiving back what's owed
- defaultPreset standard option
obligation · arrears · delinquency · installment · amortization · bonded · indebted · encumbered
Combined into one
- APRYearly borrowing cost
- rateMeasured speed or charge
- percentageProportion out of hundred
- annualOccurring every year
exorbitant · excessive · punitive · accruing · capitalized · vig · vigorish · juice
moneylender
One providing loans
- pawnbrokerLender against personal property
- creditorOne owed money
- financierManager of substantial funds
shylock · banker · factor · money-changer
avarice
Excessive desire for riches
- rapacityAggressive, seizing greed
- covetousnessExcessive desire for possessions
- acquisitivenessDesire to gather wealth
insatiability · hoarding · graspingness · moneygrubbing · mercenary · profiteering · mammonism · voracity · avaricious · extortionate
predatory
Exploiting the vulnerable
- extortionObtaining through threats
- gougeConcave carving blade
- overchargeDemand excessive payment
squeeze · bleed · oppress · coerce · ensnare · profiteer · swindle · manipulate · plunder · victimize
principal
Chief school administrator
- collateralSecurity for debt
- securityProtection from threat
- repaymentGiving back what's owed
default · obligation · arrears · delinquency · installment · amortization · bonded · indebted · encumbered · lien
compound
Combined into one
- APRYearly borrowing cost
- rateMeasured speed or charge
- percentageProportion out of hundred
annual · exorbitant · excessive · punitive · accruing · capitalized · vig · vigorish · juice · points
usurersphilanthropists
Generous supporters of good causes
benefactors · donors · givers · almsgivers · patrons
usurerssocial workers
Professionals helping struggling individuals
humanitarians · relief workers · almsgivers · charitable organizations · Franciscans