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loanmonger en · NOUN

Etymology

From loan + monger.

Meanings

1. A dealer in, or negotiator of, loans.
   • 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. 1831, [Benjamin Disraeli], chapter I, in The Young Duke. […], volume II (book III), London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 9:
   • The Punic Wars […] he presented as a gigantic necessary struggle between noble north-side soldiers and revengeful, obdurate, but extremely competent south-side loanmongers. 1937, H. G. Wells, Star-Begotten, Chapter 6, §4:

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