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Meaning of loanmonger | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

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.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

Loans loanshark loansharking loanshift loanword loanword, foreign word, borrowing

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