Usually means: Provider of loans for profit.
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  1. moneylender: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. moneylender: Merriam-Webster
  3. moneylender: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. moneylender: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. moneylender: Collins English Dictionary
  6. moneylender: Vocabulary.com
  7. moneylender: Wordnik
  8. moneylender: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. moneylender: Wiktionary
  10. moneylender: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. moneylender: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. moneylender: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. moneylender: Dictionary.com
  14. Moneylender: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. moneylender: Rhymezone
  16. moneylender: FreeDictionary.org
  17. moneylender: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. moneylender: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ noun:  A person who lends money and charges interest, especially one who is not part of the official financial industry.

Similar:
loan shark, usurer, shark, moneyer, moneymonger, lender, Monier, loanmonger, loanholder, pawnbroker, more...

Adjectives:
local, old, professional, private, rich, certain, indian, usurious, traditional, wealthy, chinese

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Similar:
loan shark, usurer, shark, moneyer, moneymonger, lender, Monier, loanmonger, loanholder, pawnbroker, more...

Adjectives:
local, old, professional, private, rich, certain, indian, usurious, traditional, wealthy, chinese



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