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Lenders, including major credit companies as well as payday lenders, have taken over the traditional role of the street-corner loan shark, charging the poor insanely high rates of interest.
Barbara Ehrenreich

Meaning of "loan shark" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF LOAN SHARK

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF LOAN SHARK

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Loan shark is a noun.
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WHAT DOES LOAN SHARK MEAN IN ENGLISH?

loan shark

Loan shark

A loan shark is a person or body that offers loans at extremely high interest rates. The term usually refers to illegal activity, but may also refer to predatory lending with extremely high interest rates such as payday or title loans. Loan sharks sometimes enforce repayment by blackmail or threats of violence. Historically, many moneylenders skirted between legal and extra-legal activity. In the recent western world, loan sharks have been a feature of the criminal underworld.

Definition of loan shark in the English dictionary

The definition of loan shark in the dictionary is a person who lends funds at illegal or exorbitant rates of interest.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE LOAN SHARK

loan account
loan agreement
loan capital
loan collection
Loan Council
loan guarantee
loan investment
loan office
loan officer
loan repayment
loan translation
loan word
loan-to-value
loanable
loanback
Loanda
loanee
loaner
loaning
loanshift

WORDS THAT END LIKE LOAN SHARK

angel shark
basking shark
blue shark
carpet shark
cow shark
fox shark
great white shark
grey nurse shark
gummy shark
hark
landshark
mackerel shark
nurse shark
school shark
shark
six-gilled shark
thresher shark
tiger shark
whale shark
whaler shark
white shark

Synonyms and antonyms of loan shark in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «loan shark» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF LOAN SHARK

Find out the translation of loan shark to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of loan shark from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «loan shark» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

高利贷
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

usurero
570 millions of speakers

English

loan shark
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

ऋण शार्क
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

قرض القرش
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

ростовщик
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

agiota
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

সূদখোর
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

usurier
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Jerung pinjaman
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Kredithai
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

高利貸し
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

사채업 자
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Iwak utang
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

cho vay nặng lãi
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மீட்டர் வட்டிக்காரன்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कर्जाचा शार्क
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

tefeci
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

strozzino
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

lichwiarz
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

лихвар
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

rechin împrumut
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

τοκογλύφο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

lening haai
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

lånehaj
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

lånehai
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of loan shark

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «LOAN SHARK»

The term «loan shark» is normally little used and occupies the 111.960 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «LOAN SHARK» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about loan shark

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QUOTES WITH «LOAN SHARK»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word loan shark.
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Barbara Ehrenreich
Lenders, including major credit companies as well as payday lenders, have taken over the traditional role of the street-corner loan shark, charging the poor insanely high rates of interest.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LOAN SHARK»

Discover the use of loan shark in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to loan shark and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Seduced by the Loan Shark:
My body practically vibrated with the memory of my tryst with Hagen. "I guess that wouldn't be so bad." "Wouldn't be so bad?" Ronnie parroted in shock. "Cassie, listen to yourself! Are you hot for this guy? For this loan shark?" I shrugged and ...
Roxie Rivera, 2013
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Confronting Metaphor in Use: An Applied Linguistic Approach
I'm not 2. banks were also victims in the loan shark scam. Spring: Either 3. anks has been accused of using loan shark tactics after charging 4. Dressed in black, his Miami loan shark visits LA to round up money 5. date stars John Travolta as a  ...
Mara Sophia Zanotto, Lynne Cameron, Marilda do Couto Cavalcanti, 2008
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New York Magazine
"Now the average guy [read "loan shark"! is worried. He's taking his 10 percent off the weekly income for expenses, but he's only putting half as much as he used to put back on the street. A couple of months ago, a guy pulling down $50,000 a ...
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New York Magazine
Portrait of a Loan Shark Fiction by Peter Maas ". . . Loansharking had continuity and substance and offered him power and control over people. Karpstein liked that. 'The most important thing about the shylocking business/ he confided to ...
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Islands in the Street: Gangs and American Urban Society
The first occurred in New York, where a particular loan shark was not only lending money at a much higher rate than in other parts of the city, but was also lending to people who he knew would have difficulty meeting the payment schedule.
Martin Sanchez Jankowski, 1991
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Money-Lenders, Anti-Loan Shark, License Laws and Economics ...
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
Clarence Hodson, 2012
7
Boys' Life
ACK of .a parti' tion where passers-by cannot see him, the loan shark spins his web — and waits. In his show- windows he dis- plays generous- sounding proposals. He says, "We will trust you when nobody else will — if you have a job.
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Ethical Markets: Growing the Green Economy
They borrow from a loan shark, the loan shark's very efficient—the loan shark will get the money there but the loan shark will want sometimes as much as 10 percent per week interest. Micro-credit programs basically try to lend with the ...
Hazel Henderson, 2006
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Financing the American Dream: A Cultural History of Consumer ...
33. Clarence Wassam, The Salary Loan Business in New York City (New York: Charities Publication Committee, 1908), p. 62; Arthur H. Ham, The Campaign against the Loan Shark (New York: Russell Sage Foundation Pamphlets, 1912), p. 1.
Lendol Calder, 2009
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A History of Interest Rates
The better class of modern loan shark skirts the law by buying salaries or selling overpriced merchandise. A prevailing rate of 240%, running upto 1500% per annum,on loansof this typewas suggested during the Great Depression bya surveyin ...
Sidney Homer, Richard Sylla, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «LOAN SHARK»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term loan shark is used in the context of the following news items.
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'True Detective': The Weird Orgy Awaits - The Daily Beast
... a loan shark for Frank Semyon (Vaughn) but also on the brink of losing custody of his ginger kid—something the attorney general's office can ... «Daily Beast, Jul 15»
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Scrapping maintenance grants is more vicious than it looks …
... we are complicit in thrusting the most disadvantaged students further into the clutches of this country's nastiest loan shark: a Conservative ... «Open Democracy, Jul 15»
3
RAY DONOVAN Recap 'Ding': Ray Finds New Ways To Absorb the …
Mick once again suckered Daryll, this time into putting up his car for collateral to a loan shark, and with the cash bought cocaine. The girls make ... «TVRuckus, Jul 15»
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Win a copy of acclaimed drama 'Inherent Vice' on Blu-ray
With a cast of characters that includes surfers, hustlers, dopers and rockers, a murderous loan shark, LAPD Detectives, a tenor sax player ... «TweakTown, Jul 15»
5
Greece: Approving Its Own Economic Death Sentence | Global …
Bailouts on loan shark of last resort terms assure greater unemployment, poverty, deprivation and economic decline toward oblivion. A previous ... «Center for Research on Globalization, Jul 15»
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Greece: Approving Its Own Death Sentence
Bailouts on loan shark of last resort terms assure greater unemployment, poverty, deprivation and economic decline toward oblivion. A previous ... «Center for Research on Globalization, Jul 15»
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Suspected loan shark held in swoop on house in Newton Heath
A suspected loan shark has been arrested after a swoop on a house in Newton Heath. The 41-year-old man was held yesterday on suspicion ... «Manchester Evening News, Jul 15»
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Bishop Auckland kids use theatre to tackle town's loan shark issue
KIDS are using theatre to bite back against loan sharks after teaming up with the police. The Bishop Auckland Theatre Hooligans (BATH) group ... «The Northern Echo, Jul 15»
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HUNT ON FOR LOAN SHARK COLLECTOR
Another loan shark illegal money lending service was revealed by Pattaya Police on the evening of Friday, 10th July. Officers went out to a bar on Walking Street ... «Pattaya People, Jul 15»
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LOAN SHARK ATTACKERS ARRESTED
Dongtan police announced on the afternoon of Friday, 10th July the arrest of three members of a loan shark money lending operation. Tirayut aged 31, Nattapat ... «Pattaya People, Jul 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Loan shark [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/loan-shark>. Apr 2024 ».
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