Meaning of loanmonger | Babel Free

Definitions

A dealer in, or negotiator of, loans.

Examples

“Teach us, that wealth is not elegance; that profusion is not magnificence; and that splendour is not beauty. Teach us, that taste is a talisman, which can do greater wonders than the millions of the loan-monger.”

“The Punic Wars […] he presented as a gigantic necessary struggle between noble north-side soldiers and revengeful, obdurate, but extremely competent south-side loanmongers.”

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