loan shark
Noun
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Noun
loan shark (plural loan sharks)
- Someone who lends money at exorbitant rates of interest.
- French: usurier, usurière
- German: Kredithai, Wucherer, Wucherin
- Italian: usuraio, usuraia, strozzino (colloquial), strozzina
- Portuguese: agiota
- Russian: ростовщи́к
- Spanish: usurero, usurera
loan shark
- Alternative spelling of loanshark
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