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usurer
[ yoo-zher-er ]
noun
- a person who lends money and charges interest, especially at an exorbitant or unlawful rate; moneylender.
- Obsolete. a person who lends money at interest.
usurer
/ ˈÂá³ÜËÏôÉ™°ùÉ™ /
noun
- a person who lends funds at an exorbitant rate of interest
- obsolete.a moneylender
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Example Sentences
Jews never belong enough anywhere to avoid vilification as parasites, vultures, usurers and traitors.
As Exodus 22:25 states: “If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as an usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury.â€
"The real enemies of Europe," she said, "Are the bankers, usurers and technocrats."
Congress has the power to – and should – drive usurers away from our military installations, because such lenders pose a risk to the national defense.
The bourgeois — a doctor, a merchant, a usurer — are his main target, their music rootless, full of inane little scales that crescendo to deafening, unconducted carnage that implodes into deserved nothingness.
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