usurer
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
usurer (plural usurers)
- A person who loans money to others and charges interest, particularly at an illegal, exorbitant, or unfair rate.
- 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 4:
- Profitless usurer, why dost thou use
- So great a sum of sums, yet canst not live?
- 1936, Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind, chapter XLIII
- "You can go to the Carpetbag usurers if you want money."
- 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 4:
- (rare) Specifically, a male usurer.
- French: usurier, usurière
- German: Wucherer, Wucherin, Kredithai, Zinswucherer
- Portuguese: usurário, usureiro, agiota
- Russian: ростовщи́к
- Spanish: usurero, usurera
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