Usurers - English meaning

Usurers – definitions in English dictionary

noun
A person who lends money at unreasonably high rates of interest.
Usage examples:
Where the actual producers fall prey to usurers and merchants, because of their lack of market powe…
Synonims:
Extortionate moneylender Payday lender Gombeen man Loan shark Shylock

Usurers translation into English

Usurers: translate from English into Chinese

高利贷者

Usurers: translate from English into Dutch

Woekeraars, Woekeraar

Usurers: translate from English into French

Usuriers, Usurier

Usurers: translate from English into German

Wucherer

Usurers: translate from English into Hindi

सूदखोर

Usurers: translate from English into Italian

Usurai, Usuraio, Strozzino

Usurers: translate from English into Korean

고리대금업자, 고리 대금업자

Usurers: translate from English into Russian

Ростовщики, Ростовщик

Usurers: translate from English into Spanish

Usureros, Usurero

Word origin

Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French, from Old French usure, from Latin usura (see usury).

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Usurers – similar words

usurer

noun
A person who lends money at unreasonably high rates of interest.
Usage examples:
Where the actual producers fall prey to usurers and merchants, because of their lack of market powe…

noun
A person who lends someone money with the agreement that they will pay back a very much larger amount of money later
Usage examples:
Usurers continued to exploit the poor until people could take it no more., vast fortunes were made …

Usurer - all meanings in English

Usurers synonims

loan shark

noun
A moneylender who charges extremely high rates of interest, typically under illegal conditions.
Usage examples:
Reports of exploitation and deceptive trading practices by loan sharks

noun
A person who charges a very large amount of interest for lending money

noun
A person who charges large amounts of interest for lending money to someone, especially when their financial position means they cannot borrow money from a bank
Usage examples:
Loan sharks target those with bad debt records because they may have difficulty getting loans from …

Loan shark - all meanings in English

shylock

proper noun
A jewish moneylender in shakespeare's merchant of venice, who lends money to antonio but demands in return a pound of antonio's own flesh should the debt not be repaid on time.

noun
A moneylender who charges extremely high rates of interest.

Shylock - all meanings in English

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