Usually means: Lending money at extreme rates.
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We found 12 dictionaries that define the word loan sharking:

General (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. loan-sharking: Merriam-Webster
  2. loan-sharking: Wordnik
  3. loan sharking: Wiktionary
  4. loan-sharking: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  5. loan-sharking, loan sharking: Dictionary.com
  6. Loan-sharking, Loan sharking: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. loan-sharking: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  3. Loan sharking: Legal dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. loan sharking: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Note: See loan_shark as well.)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Loan sharking)

▸ noun:  Alternative form of loansharking [The lending of money at an excessive interest rate.]

Similar:
moneylender, usurer, shark, loanin, land shark, NINJA loan, pawn shop, shake-down, spondoolicks, jobhunting, more...

Opposite:
lending, legitimate lending, ethical lending

Types:
usury, losharking, payday loans, title loans, pawn shops, more...

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Similar:
moneylender, usurer, shark, loanin, land shark, NINJA loan, pawn shop, shake-down, spondoolicks, jobhunting, more...

Opposite:
lending, legitimate lending, ethical lending

Types:
usury, losharking, payday loans, title loans, pawn shops, more...



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