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usurer

[ yoo-zher-er ]

noun

  1. a person who lends money and charges interest, especially at an exorbitant or unlawful rate; moneylender.
  2. Obsolete. a person who lends money at interest.


usurer

/ ˈÂá³ÜËÏôÉ™°ùÉ™ /

noun

  1. a person who lends funds at an exorbitant rate of interest
  2. obsolete.
    a moneylender
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of usurer1

1250–1300; Middle English < Anglo-French < Medieval Latin Å«²õÅ«°ùÄå°ù¾±³Ü²õ, equivalent to Å«²õÅ«°ù ( ia ) usury + Latin -Äå°ù¾±³Ü²õ -ary
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Jews never belong enough anywhere to avoid vilification as parasites, vultures, usurers and traitors.

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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€

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"The real enemies of Europe," she said, "Are the bankers, usurers and technocrats."

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Congress has the power to – and should – drive usurers away from our military installations, because such lenders pose a risk to the national defense.

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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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